Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:39:55 -0400 From: "Niki Denev" <nike_d@cytexbg.com> To: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] autoload if_vlan.ko on vlan creation Message-ID: <2e77fc10804301239v38fec840k24a2f3cdf2185344@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080430185021.GA99435@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <2e77fc10804301101i57c73a32n8273f7a8a96b7e6f@mail.gmail.com> <20080430185021.GA99435@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: > What is the practical use of this feature? If you don't have the > module loaded, the rc scripts won't even see the interface unless > you manually set network_interfaces which has been documented as a > deprecated configuration since 6.2 and will soon generate warnings in > 7-stable. If you want to use an interface, why not add an appropriate > entry to /boot/loader.conf and be done with it? > > -- Brooks > Well, it just bugged me that : ifconfig bridge|vlan|lagg create all autoload the required modules, while ifconfig fxp0.5 create does not. Anyways, the patch seems to be broken and probably fixing this just for one special case is not worth it...
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