vlans and cloning

[Andre Oppermann]

Sam Leffler wrote:
> I committed the revised netif cloning api so you can now specify
> parameters when cloning.  I also modified the vlan code to use this
> mechanism so doing something like:
> 
> ifconfig vlan create vlan 1 vlandev em0
> 
> causes a single request to clone a vlan together with the tag+parent
> device parameters (i.e. and no subsequent SIOCSETVLAN request).
> 
> Given the above do we still need to support setting vlan tag+device
> separately or can we just require everything be specified when doing the
> clone operation?  This would change the user api but otherwise I can see
> no reason for continuing to support the old mechanism where you do:
> 
> ifconfig vlan create
> ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0

/me wants to do:

"ifconfig em0.1 inet 192.168.2.2/24"

Even simpler.  And yes, this works already but only if if_vlan.ko
was loaded before or compiled into the kernel.  It doesn't do auto-
load.

-- 
Andre