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

[Florent Thoumie]

Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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.

Fine with me as well. Should we make it a warning on RELENG_6 and an
error on HEAD, or a warning on both. The former being be what I was
planning to do, ie. remove support for "NO" in HEAD but issue a message
saying semantics have changed. The latter would mean identical code in
both HEAD and RELENG_6 (so "NO"-compatibility in both branches), but
we'd need a reminder to remove this "NO"-support in HEAD once RELENG_7
is branched.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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