9-stable - ifmedia_set: no match for 0x0/0xfffffff

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 01:19:40PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > What happens if you set hw.bge.allow_asf to 0 and use auto-negotiation
> > on both sides?
> 
> it works!  the switch was already auto-neg, and i forced auto-neg on the
> server side.
> 

Apart from suspend/resume issue, bge(4) still needs more code to
handle controllers with ASF/IPMI firmware.  This part is mostly
undocumented and hard to experiment due to lack of hardware access.
Current IPMI/ASF handling code shows mixed results and setting
hw.bge.allow_asf to 0 will break IPMI support.

> thanks.  this was not pleasant.  did i remember to whine that i am in
> tokyo and the server is on the beast coast of the states?  :)
> 
> i think a bit of a warning about hw.bge.allow_asf in UPDATING might help
> folk.
> 
> thank you *very* much for your help.
> 
> randy