kern/154850: [netgraph] [patch] ng_ether fails to name nodes when the associated interface contains dots or colons

[st41ker]

The following reply was made to PR kern/154850; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: st41ker <st41ker at st41ker.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, ndenev at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/154850: [netgraph] [patch] ng_ether fails to name nodes
 when the associated interface contains dots or colons
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:07:39 +0300

 Hello,
 
 Mentioned issue still exists in the FreeBSD-9-STABLE branch (it seems 
 like every branch is affected).
 
 According to new rc subsystem (check the /etc/network.subr) where vlans 
 are created - they're all using dots in ifnames.
 Also, function get_if_var() already has mentioned code for the replacing 
 ". - / +" to "_".
 So mentioned patch will not break anything, even users ngctl scripts, 
 since that users just can not use dots there by design.
 
 Thank you.