The following reply was made to PR kern/29113; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Masanori Kanaoka <kanaoka@ann.hi-ho.ne.jp>
To: yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kanaoka@ann.hi-ho.ne.jp
Subject: Re: kern/29113: re(4) reports "unknown subtype"
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:22:34 +0900 (JST)

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 Hi,
 
        From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
     Subject: Re: kern/29113: re(4) reports "unknown subtype"
       Date : Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:55:56 +0900
  Message-ID: <1106654156.513559.745.nullmailer@yamt.dyndns.org>
 
 $ i have to admit i don't know anything about phy/mii.
 $ (that's why i filed this PR rather than fix it by myself. :-)
 
 I don't know anything about phy/mii, too. :-)
 
 re and rtk has same code.So I suspect phy/mii.
 I only checked difference between ukphy and rgephy. 
 
 $ only reason i thought RTK_ENABLED should be checked is the fact that
 $ my favorite driver, fxp, does the similar.  (fxp_mii_mediastatus)
 
 tlp does the similar.
 I also check next patch and confirmed that it fixed this problem.
 
 ---
  Masanori Kanaoka        kanaoka AT ann.hi-ho.ne.jp
 
 
 Index: rtl8169.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /ftp/cvs/src/sys/dev/ic/rtl8169.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.6
 diff -u -r1.6 rtl8169.c
 --- rtl8169.c   13 Jan 2005 14:24:24 -0000      1.6
 +++ rtl8169.c   25 Jan 2005 10:21:10 -0000
 @@ -1930,11 +1930,15 @@
  
         sc = ifp->if_softc;
  
 +       if (RTK_IS_ENABLED(sc) == 0) {
 +               ifmr->ifm_active = IFM_ETHER | IFM_NONE;
 +               ifmr->ifm_status = 0;
 +               return;
 +       }
 +
         mii_pollstat(&sc->mii);
         ifmr->ifm_active = sc->mii.mii_media_active;
         ifmr->ifm_status = sc->mii.mii_media_status;
 -
 -       return;
  }
  
  static int
 
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