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Subject: Re: dev.* analogue for interfaces
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John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> writes:
> My case is perfectly clear.  We already have dev.* for this, and you
> want to add a second, confusing, place to put similar/same information...
> Yes, this is specific for network interfaces, but what makes a network
> interface special that it's configuration can't live in dev.*?  You
> stated that you were fine w/ some items being in dev.* and others in
> net.if.* for the same device, which is why I objected.

If you can't tell the difference between a struct ifnet and a device_t,
I'm afraid we're going to have to agree to disagree.

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