Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:17:27 +0200 From: Artis Caune <artis.caune@gmail.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: Sebastian Hyrwall <sh@keff.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi. Regarding "automatic vlan creation" Message-ID: <9e20d71e0910290217k58493c3enb7dc303f50385533@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091029000822.GA74744@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <4AE852C1.8090103@keff.org> <20091028164330.GA71430@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <9e20d71e0910281531o56d82709ife0b76a59bff5f23@mail.gmail.com> <20091029000822.GA74744@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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2009/10/29 Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>: >> btw, wouldn't it be nice not to bother with loader.conf when using >> <device>.<vlan> syntax? >> This patch will load if_vlan automatically in this case: > > Sorry but my reation is: eww. =C2=A0There's no way I'd commit that. =C2= =A0You'd be > randomly loading the vlan code for any interface that had a dot in it. You are right, forgot about 'ifconfig rename'. > The real change we should make it to add device vlan to GENERIC. =C2=A0It= 's > long past time for it to be in by default. It's even better, what's need to be done to move it to GENERIC? --=20 Artis Caune Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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