Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:36:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb+freebsd@zabbadoz.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/83622: [ patch ] add network interfaces labeling support Message-ID: <20050718223600.GA3145@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200507182020.j6IKKQ1r076797@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200507182020.j6IKKQ1r076797@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 08:20:26PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > I am realy unsure about stuffing such data into kernel. > It's 'nice' but not more. Unless we plan to implement a network configuration DBMS and discard all other interfaces to network interface configuration, the kernel is the only possible place. It costs close to nothing if the string is malloc'd and could easily be made into an option for people who were really bothered by it, particulary since it doens't affect the ABI not that struct ifnet is no longer in the softc. > Usually high level CLIs give the ability to set interface > descriptions and show them... Such CLIs could feel free to use or ignore this value. IMO, not using it would be stupid since it would prevent the value from being visiable to other tools which is the sort of brain damaged BS that annoys me every time I have to misfortune to use some GUIfied Linux system. > I case we'll do it I think we should take RFC2233 ifAlias > into account. Providing an extra rc.conf variable too set this value appears to meet the requirements for ifAlias so I don't think it's an issue. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC3C7PXY6L6fI4GtQRAmhPAJ9w4CjPE9S/C9yubUeOd9DGsKfpfQCdG60Q m444Bgr8nXctkavf7nXB3tM= =BQWg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--
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