FYI: if_capabilities needs to grow - proposing extension using nvlists

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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps_at_selasky.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:42:01 UTC

Hi,

The "ifp->if_capabilities" field is out of bits and needs to grow. The 
plan is to call this a legacy field and use nvlists to extend this field.

Please see here for planned changes to ifconfig and if IOCTLs if you are 
interested doing review and testing:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32551

--HPS