conf/104884: Add support EtherChannel configuration to rc.conf

[Brooks Davis]

The following reply was made to PR conf/104884; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org>
To: Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org>, Florent Thoumie <flz at FreeBSD.org>,
        Norikatsu Shigemura <nork at FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org,
        FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-rc at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/104884: Add support EtherChannel configuration to rc.conf
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:46:59 -0600

 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:55:16PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
 > Brooks Davis wrote:
 > 
 > > The default should be an empty list which results in nothing happening.
 > > I'd suggest making empty list the value for the default gif_interfaces
 > > in /etc/defaults/rc.conf in both branches, removing support for NO in
 > > CURRENT and emitting a warning in stable.
 > 
 > How about issuing a warning for NO in both branches? Whether I agree
 > with you or not on the importance of keeping things clean and
 > consistent, I definitely do not want to err on the side of pedantry
 > over usability.
 
 That would be fine.  I don't really care as long as it's deprecated.
 
 FWIW, only users who don't update /etc/defaults/rc.conf or who manually
 set gif_interfaces="NO" would be effected so the size of the set of
 effected users is probalby close to epilon and even all that will happen
 is cloning an extra interface and then not configuring it so it should
 be basicly harmless to just remove direct support for it.
 
 -- Brooks