[PATCH] autoload if_vlan.ko on vlan creation

[Niki Denev]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
>  What is the practical use of this feature?  If you don't have the
>  module loaded, the rc scripts won't even see the interface unless
>  you manually set network_interfaces which has been documented as a
>  deprecated configuration since 6.2 and will soon generate warnings in
>  7-stable.  If you want to use an interface, why not add an appropriate
>  entry to /boot/loader.conf and be done with it?
>
>  -- Brooks
>

Well, it just bugged me that :

  ifconfig bridge|vlan|lagg create

all autoload the required modules, while

   ifconfig fxp0.5 create

does not.

Anyways, the patch seems to be broken and probably
fixing this just for one special case is not worth it...