kern/83622: [net] [patch] add network interfaces labeling support

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

The following reply was made to PR kern/83622; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: novel at freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: kern/83622: [net] [patch] add network interfaces labeling support
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:51:38 +0400

 Hi, All.
 
 What you think about this idea:
 we can have config file, for example /etc/interfaces (similar to
 /etc/networks) and put each description into this file.
 ifconfig will lookup description from this file and show it.
 With this we don't needed any kernel changes..
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov