On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:33:06PM -0400, David Horn wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Oliver Fromme <o...@lurza.secnetix.de> >> wrote: >> > David Horn wrote: >> > ?> Oliver Fromme wrote: >> > ?> > >> > ?> > ?network_interfaces="bge0 lo0" >> > ?> >> > ?> Ah. ?Ok, now I am understanding your scenario. >> > ?> >> > ?> I thought that using 'network_interfaces' with anything other than >> > ?> "AUTO" ?was in the process of being depreciated ? >> > >> > Well, the manual page says so, but I think that is a >> > mistake. ?There are cases where you have to specify the >> > list of interfaces explicitly. ?The situation described >> > in this thread is one such case. >> >> Good point. >> >> > >> > My opinion is that it is good to have the ability to let >> > things be done automatically, but it is bad to remove the >> > ability to do things manually. ?This is UNIX, after all. >> >> Exactly. Both scenarios should probably be supported, but I guess we >> would need to ask brooks for some history on the depreciated warning >> for network_interfaces. > > I think network_interfaces and the autoloading support in ifconfig are > a massive mistake that we've been unable to kill. The relativly large > amount of code you've written to hack around yet another edge case proves > my point. :) If you want to load if_iwn at boot just do: > > echo 'if_iwn_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf > > and be done with it.
Yep, now that I have had some time to think about it, this is probably not worth patching. Thanks for the feedback. --Dave H > > -- Brooks > >> ================================================= >> src/etc/network.subr >> Revision 1.185: download - view: text, markup, annotated - [selected for >> diffs] >> Wed Apr 30 16:29:15 2008 UTC (10 months, 2 weeks ago) by brooks >> Branches: MAIN >> Diff to: previous 1.184: preferred, colored >> Changes since revision 1.184: +4 -0 lines >> >> Emit a warning when the network_interfaces variable is not set to AUTO. >> >> MFC after: 3 days >> ================================================== >> >> --Thanks! >> >> -_Dave H >> >> > >> > Best regards >> > ? Oliver >> > >> > -- >> > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. >> > Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, ?Gesch?ftsfuehrung: >> > secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht M?n- >> > chen, HRB 125758, ?Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart >> > >> > FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: ?http://www.secnetix.de/bsd >> > >> > "The ITU has offered the IETF formal alignment with its >> > corresponding technology, Penguins, but that won't fly." >> > ? ? ? ?-- RFC 2549 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
