svn commit: r201351 - head/sys/net

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 06:35:33AM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> On Thursday 31 December 2009 21:47:54 John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 December 2009 3:44:38 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> > > Author: jhb
> > > Date: Thu Dec 31 20:44:38 2009
> > > New Revision: 201351
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/201351
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Use stricter checking to match possible vlan clones by not allowing
> > > extra garbage characters around or within the tag.
> > 
> > Previously some odd clone requests such as 'em0.102a', 'em0.10a3bc', and
> > 'em0.foo.104' would have succeeded creating interfaces equivalent to
> >  em0.102, em0.103, and em0.104.
> 
> The em0.foo.104 case seems quite useful, though.  Maybe we can keep that 
> /feature/?

You can always name any interface anything you want and the new rc.d
support John added makes that easy.  The origional intent of the name
based vlan configuration was to support <ether>.<vlan> and I view this
as a bugfix.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/attachments/20100103/69c6c7d4/attachment.pgp