network.subr _aliasN handling

[dteske at FreeBSD.org]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dteske at FreeBSD.org [mailto:dteske at FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 12:05 PM
> To: 'Hiroki Sato'; dteske at FreeBSD.org
> Cc: jhellenthal at dataix.net; lists at jnielsen.net; rc at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: RE: network.subr _aliasN handling
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hiroki Sato [mailto:hrs at FreeBSD.org]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:18 PM
> > To: dteske at FreeBSD.org
> > Cc: jhellenthal at dataix.net; lists at jnielsen.net; rc at FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: Re: network.subr _aliasN handling
> >
> > <dteske at FreeBSD.org> wrote
> >   in <04f701cf4c85$d1929680$74b7c380$@FreeBSD.org>:
> >
> > dt> But that wouldn't have deterred me. 30+ days of silence is
> > dt> equivalent to acceptance -- just that I had noticed that the patch
> > dt> could be expanded to include mdconfig{,2} scripts. Was going to
> > dt> wait a full day to see if anyone balked at the expansion to
> > dt> include mdconfig{,2} and then move forward.
> >
> >  I like the direction in general, but there are two more comments:
> >

Committed change:
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264243

> >  1. sort(1) cannot be used [snip]
> 
> Problem solved.

Ended up beefing up the internal sort function (sort_lite()).
Gave it some more options and regression tested it against
several inputs and flags to always produce the same output
as sort(1).

> >  2. Please put the normalization part into a function and use it in
> >     get_if_var(), too.  Adding another code for the same functionality
> >     makes maintenance difficult.

Aforementioned enhancements to address that included
in mentioned SVN r264243.
-- 
Devin

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