ifnet cloning changes

[Andrew Thompson]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:07:34PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> The patch here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/clone.patch
> 
> modifies the SIOCIFCREATE api in the kernel so that an opaque parameter 
> block can be passed down to ifnet cloning routines (actually the user 
> address is passed down and the caller must do the copyin since it alone 
> knows the size of the parameter block).  This allows you to specify 
> parameters at the time a clone is done which can greatly simplify the 
> handling of cloned ifnets.  This change is a prerequisite to bringing in 
> my 802.11 virtual ap work which depends on this to fix vap configuration 
> state at the time the vap is created.
 
I think its a good idea. The src/sys/net/if_media.c change looks
like its not meant to be there (in the final commit anyway).


Andrew