Re: problem with using 6 wm0 devices?!

[Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl%beer.org@localhost>]

On 5-May-08, at 1:25 PM, Harry Waddell wrote:

> A GENERIC ACPI INSTALL netbsd i386 -current kernel works fine ( as  
> does opensuse 10.3 ), so I think the hardware is ok, but I also  
> tried different cards just to be doubly sure.
>
> I can't in good conscience use -current on a production router  
> which is under a pretty extreme
> load, so I looked at the diffs for sys/dev/pci/if_wm.c between  
> netbsd-4-0-RELEASE and -current
> and to my only somewhat clueful eyes, it looks like most of the  
> changes are more cleanup/abstraction related rather than changes to  
> the logic itself.
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions. I'm probably missing something  
> obvious.

Just as a point of reference, I have a 3.1ish machine with 6 wm's  
working fine with 339 days of uptime.

wm0   1500  <Link>        00:12:3f:20:0f:60 2831524951     0  
3763328028     0     0
wm1   1500  <Link>        00:04:23:c4:73:1c 4086344234     0  
3080246854     0     0
wm2   1500  <Link>        00:04:23:c4:73:1d 1003308211     0  
954033528     0     0
wm3   1500  <Link>        00:04:23:c4:73:1e        0     0      
1255     4     0
wm4   1500  <Link>        00:04:23:c4:73:1f        0     0         
6     0     0
wm5   1500  <Link>        00:12:3f:20:0f:61 105498811     0  
114365074     0     0

...so it did work, at some point.