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Date:      Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:21:49 -0700
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r193199 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <20090602002149.1d7822b2@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A23E6E4.7020506@incunabulum.net>
References:  <200906010537.n515bDou065357@svn.freebsd.org> <4A23E6E4.7020506@incunabulum.net>

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On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:34:12 +0100 Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> > Log:
> >   Eliminate the warning that "Values of network_interfaces other than
> >   AUTO are deprecated.' There is no good reason to deprecate them, and
> >   setting this to different values can be useful for custom solutions
> >   and/or one-off configuration problems.
> >   
> 
> Thanks, I wasn't sure what the alternative to this functionality was 
> going to be, and was relying on this mechanism for a product.

+1 - I rely on it to handle renamed interfaces properly (ifconfig -l
gives different answers before and after the rename(s)).

-- 
Brian Somers                                          <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !               <brian@FreeBSD.org>



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