Re: review request: interface renaming patch

2004-01-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:02:38PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > The patch is split into cleanups that apply to the tree regardless of > this functional change and the actual functional changes. You will need > to use "patch -p2" to apply the patch due to they way I generated it > from my perforce

review request: interface renaming patch

2004-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
The following patch implements network interface renaming via: ifconfig name The mechanism is to change if_xname in the ifp and then to adjust the link level address sockaddr_dl appropriatly. One question I do have is if locking the ifa is sufficent or if we need to force the user to down the