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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:17:27 +0200
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From: Artis Caune <artis.caune@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hi. Regarding "automatic vlan creation"
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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?




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Artis Caune

    Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.