On 20 Nov 2023, at 15:16, Franco Fichtner wrote:
>> On 20. Nov 2023, at 21:56, Kristof Provost <k...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> I’d look in the direction of just adding a field to struct ifnet with the
>> original interface name (likely easily done in if_attach()), along with a
>> new ioctl to retrieve that field.
>
> ifconfig_get_orig_name() already exists, but apart from wlandebug
> nothing is using it.
Thanks for pointing that out! I hadn't noticed it. I also hadn't thought
of that way to fetch the driver name and unit.
> The internally used IFDATA_DRIVERNAME also appears in ifinfo
> (not installed in base) and bsnmpd but that's it.
>
> if_dname is the target and it exists in ifnet struct along with
> a man page entry in inet(9).
>
> All that is really missing is a way to print it via ifconfig command.
That is trivial to add; I just tested it. It also has problems with
epair. Maybe that isn't an issue for this purpose. I hate to invent
something new when there is something already existing that solves
most of the problem.
Mike
> Cheers,
> Franco
