Check if interface supports Device Polling

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:12:28AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > # ifconfig -v rl0 caps
> > Capabilities: 48
> 
> The above patch is completely unnecessary.  The -m flag in ifconfig 
> will do what you want.
> 
> However, the existing ifconfig code does not print POLLING as a
> capability, which is where the bug truly lies.
> 
> I'll provide a patch that extends the capability list properly, and will
> allow you to determine a full capability list.

I'm both correct and incorrect.

Correct: ifconfig -m will show you want.  No need for the patch.

Incorrect: I missed the "POLLING" part of #define IFCAPBITS in
ifconfig.c -- it is in fact listed there.

Maybe the polling bit is only made available if you've built a kernel
with "option DEVICE_POLLING"?  For example, I can do "ifconfig em1
polling", which returns no error, but "ifconfig -m em1" does not show
POLLING.  (My kernel does NOT have DEVICE_POLLING defined.)

In your above output, capabilities is 0x48, which means POLLING is
available, and VLAN_MTU is available.  You did not provide us output of
"ifconfig -m rl0", but I'd be inclined to believe "POLLING" is shown
there... I hope.  :-)

Also, it appears ifconfig does not print TOE4 or TOE6 capability bits;
that's probably a missing feature.

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