Hi. Regarding "automatic vlan creation"

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:17:27AM +0200, Artis Caune wrote:
> 2009/10/29 Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>:
> >> btw, wouldn't it be nice not to bother with loader.conf when using
> >> <device>.<vlan> syntax?
> >> This patch will load if_vlan automatically in this case:
> >
> > Sorry but my reation is: eww. ??There's no way I'd commit that. ??You'd be
> > randomly loading the vlan code for any interface that had a dot in it.
> 
> You are right, forgot about 'ifconfig rename'.
> 
> > The real change we should make it to add device vlan to GENERIC. ??It's
> > long past time for it to be in by default.
> 
> It's even better, what's need to be done to move it to GENERIC?

It took me longer than I'd hoped, but I've added vlan to GENERIC in
HEAD, RELENG_8, and RELENG_7 so it will be there 7.3 and 8.1.

-- Brooks
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