Question about network interface naming and devfs(5)!

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:01:18PM +0200, Ermal Lu?i wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it seems that devfs(5) is not consistent with network interface naming feature.
> 
> Network interface naming is offered by ifconfig $interface name $name.
> This feature is really helpful to distinguish interfaces properly in a
> machine and helps in scripting things.
> The problem is that the ioctl that renames the device advertises it as
> an interface arrival event which devfs does not handle and such you
> have inconsistence between ifconfig output and the information in
> devfs.
> 
> Are there any plans to fix this or is there any issue for not making
> devfs(5) aware of network interfaces events?!

I haven't dealt with it because a) there's no way to rename entries
which currently means you've have to destroy the current entry and add
a completely new one which would break applications using the devfs
entries across renames and b) I think the devfs entries are a mistake and
should die.

-- Brooks
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