| From: | Brooks Davis <brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:32:39 -0800 |
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:17:25PM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote: > There was a big commit to FreeBSD-current to do interface renaming to > bring it in line with other *BSD. Below is the commit message. Is this > change of interest for DFBSD? If so, I could start work on it. Note that this commit doesn't actually do interface renaming. It just paves the way by a) breaking the use of if_name and if_unit as both the interface name and driver name/unit and b) insuring the interface name is stored in storage we can modify rather then driver dependent, usually static storage. It also ends the tyranny of <drivername><unitnumber> naming which didn't make sense in many cases. For instance, some interface types like stf can only have one interface to calling it stf0 instead of stf or 6to4 is stupid. Another evil example is how the ef(4) driver uses the unit number to store the Ethernet frame type of the interface. I defiantly recommend taking this route, but I'm a little biased. :-) -- Brooks
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