Removal of deprecation for network_interfaces != AUTO

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 25 23:17:33 UTC 2009


So based on the feedback I saw, there were two use cases where there
wasn't another easy way to do what setting network_interface's.  Yours
(though I think my suggestion may well work) and Matthew Seaman's which
won't actually work in 8.0 without other config changes.  In both cases,
those uses reflect a failure to support valid use cases which is a good
reason to leave the ability to set network_interfaces in place.

That being said I'd still like to see the warning restored because:
 - It doesn't prevent using these workarounds.
 - It reduces support issues due to misuse.
   - Most reported uses were in fact wrong.
 - Removing network_interfaces will help us move toward a state of more
   dynamic configuration to better match system realities.

-- Brooks
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