Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:13:21 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you use a value other than AUTO for network_interfaces? Message-ID: <20090603141321.GC28486@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20090602230648.GB88740@barragry.com> References: <4A257B82.1000701@FreeBSD.org> <20090602230648.GB88740@barragry.com>
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--OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:06:48PM -0500, Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:20:34PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > Up till Sunday in 8-current, and for a long time in general > > network.subr (part of the rc.d system) has emitted a warning that > > values of network_interfaces other than AUTO are deprecated. I > > removed that warning in HEAD Sunday, and there is no a discussion > > about whether or not it should be put back, and whether or not there > > is any need for the user to specify the list of network interfaces > > at all. > >=20 > > If you use a value of network_interfaces other than AUTO please > > speak up so that we can make an intelligent decision about this > > issue. > >=20 > > Thanks, > >=20 > > Doug >=20 > I'll have to preface this by disclosing that I have not been running > -current, nor following any changes to the RC system. >=20 > In 7.1, if you compile a custom kernel and comment out an interface > (such that it is compiled as a module), one way to ensure that the > module is loaded is to explicitly list it in network_interfaces. If > -current works the same way, then users will be required to modify > /boot/loader.conf in order to load the module. Could there could be > possible side-effects to this change, since the loading of the module > happens at a different time? Do you actually do this? > At best, users doing things the 'network_interfaces' way may be in for > a surprise when the update (remotely), and this may be worthy of a > note in UPDATING. >=20 > If this has changed in 7.2 or -current, then I apologize for the > noise! The deprecation is a change relative to 7.0, but was in 7.1. -- Brooks --OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKJoUBXY6L6fI4GtQRAsgqAKCzq55ZffxXXs0D1DTb8XcF7IOMhgCfR2CK anLA01POzE4Uw0+wr2EVJHI= =HEew -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OBd5C1Lgu00Gd/Tn--
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