Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:18:19 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Artis Caune <artis.caune@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Hyrwall <sh@keff.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hi. Regarding "automatic vlan creation" Message-ID: <20100112061819.GA2135@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <9e20d71e0910290217k58493c3enb7dc303f50385533@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AE852C1.8090103@keff.org> <20091028164330.GA71430@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <9e20d71e0910281531o56d82709ife0b76a59bff5f23@mail.gmail.com> <20091029000822.GA74744@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <9e20d71e0910290217k58493c3enb7dc303f50385533@mail.gmail.com>
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--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:17:27AM +0200, Artis Caune wrote: > 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. ??There's no way I'd commit that. ??You'd= be > > randomly loading the vlan code for any interface that had a dot in it. >=20 > You are right, forgot about 'ifconfig rename'. >=20 > > The real change we should make it to add device vlan to GENERIC. ??It's > > long past time for it to be in by default. >=20 > It's even better, what's need to be done to move it to GENERIC? It took me longer than I'd hoped, but I've added vlan to GENERIC in HEAD, RELENG_8, and RELENG_7 so it will be there 7.3 and 8.1. -- Brooks --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFLTBQqXY6L6fI4GtQRAs9iAJ9Pmh01ktuEW81QUD6U3KEOWbH5gQCfc0A5 /fPcksFOmVhj3BbZZRilj3U= =Kiwp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--
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