The following reply was made to PR kern/32911; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: thorpej@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32911 (root query offers non-attached network interfaces)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:19:40 +0100

 There are a few things to note:
 
  - booting off fd0a with no floppy inserted is a similar event
  - booting off an ethernet interface with no carrier is too
 
 But they are subtly different.
 
 Now I wonder why we use alldevs here and check for DV_DISK and DV_IFNET -
 can't we just use TAILQ disklist and ifnet instead?
 
 But:
 
  - this failure mode is realy rare, and I'm not sure any change is worth
    the effort
 
 So, from my POV, it would be ok to close this PR.
 
 Martin