[Bug 240539] tuntap: Getting "ifconfig: ioctl SIOCSIFNAME (set name): File exists" from `ifconfig tap create name tap0`

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240539

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Author: kevans
Date: Sat Sep 21 01:39:50 UTC 2019
New revision: 352571
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352571

Log:
  MFS r352565: SIOCSIFNAME: Do nothing if we're not actually changing

  Instead of throwing EEXIST, just succeed if the name isn't actually
  changing. We don't need to trigger departure or any of that because there's
  no change from consumers' perspective.

  PR:           240539
  Approved by:  re (gjb)

Changes:
_U  releng/12.1/
  releng/12.1/sys/net/if.c

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