interface renaming

Richard Coleman richardcoleman at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 31 11:17:25 PST 2003


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.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Modified files:
    .                    UPDATING
    sbin/ip6fw           ip6fw.c
    sbin/ipfw            ipfw2.c
    share/man/man9       ifnet.9
    sys/alpha/osf1       osf1_ioctl.c
    sys/compat/linux     linux_ioctl.c
    sys/contrib/dev/oltr if_oltr.c
    sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_log.c
    sys/dev/an           if_an.c
    sys/dev/ar           if_ar.c
    sys/dev/ath          if_ath.c
    sys/dev/awi          if_awi_pccard.c
    sys/dev/bfe          if_bfe.c
    sys/dev/bge          if_bge.c
    sys/dev/cm           if_cm_isa.c smc90cx6.c smc90cx6var.h
    sys/dev/cnw          if_cnw.c
    sys/dev/cs           if_cs.c if_cs_isa.c if_cs_pccard.c
                         if_csvar.h
    sys/dev/ed           if_ed.c if_ed_cbus.c if_ed_isa.c
                         if_ed_pccard.c if_ed_pci.c if_edvar.h
    sys/dev/em           if_em.c
    sys/dev/en           if_en_pci.c midway.c
    sys/dev/ep           if_ep.c
    sys/dev/ex           if_ex.c
    sys/dev/fatm         if_fatm.c
    sys/dev/fe           if_fe.c if_fevar.h
    sys/dev/firewire     if_fwe.c
    sys/dev/fxp          if_fxp.c
    sys/dev/gem          if_gem.c
    sys/dev/gx           if_gx.c
    sys/dev/harp         if_harp.c
    sys/dev/hatm         if_hatm.c
    sys/dev/hme          if_hme.c
    sys/dev/ie           if_ie.c
    sys/dev/iicbus       if_ic.c
    sys/dev/lge          if_lge.c
    sys/dev/lnc          if_lnc.c
    sys/dev/mii          brgphy.c
    sys/dev/my           if_my.c
    sys/dev/nge          if_nge.c
    sys/dev/patm         if_patm_attach.c
    sys/dev/pdq          if_fea.c if_fpa.c pdq_freebsd.h pdqvar.h
    sys/dev/ppbus        if_plip.c
    sys/dev/ray          if_ray.c
    sys/dev/re           if_re.c
    sys/dev/sbni         if_sbni.c if_sbni_isa.c
    sys/dev/sbsh         if_sbsh.c
    sys/dev/sn           if_sn.c
    sys/dev/sr           if_sr.c
    sys/dev/tx           if_tx.c
    sys/dev/txp          if_txp.c
    sys/dev/usb          if_aue.c if_axe.c if_cue.c if_kue.c
                         if_rue.c
    sys/dev/vx           if_vx.c if_vx_eisa.c if_vx_pci.c
                         if_vxvar.h
    sys/dev/wi           if_wi.c
    sys/dev/wl           if_wl.c
    sys/dev/xe           if_xe.c
    sys/i386/isa         cx.c if_cx.c if_el.c if_le.c if_rdp.c
    sys/i4b/driver       i4b_ipr.c i4b_isppp.c
    sys/net              bpf.c bridge.c if.c if.h if_arcsubr.c
                         if_atmsubr.c if_disc.c if_ef.c
                         if_ethersubr.c if_faith.c if_gif.c
                         if_gre.c if_loop.c if_media.c if_mib.c
                         if_ppp.c if_sl.c if_spppsubr.c if_stf.c
                         if_tap.c if_tun.c if_var.h if_vlan.c
                         net_osdep.c net_osdep.h ppp_tty.c
                         rtsock.c
    sys/net80211         ieee80211_node.c ieee80211_proto.c
    sys/netatalk         ddp_output.c
    sys/netatm           atm_if.c atm_if.h atm_socket.c
                         atm_usrreq.c atm_var.h
    sys/netatm/ipatm     ipatm_usrreq.c
    sys/netatm/spans     spans_arp.c
    sys/netatm/uni       uniarp.c
    sys/netgraph         ng_bridge.c ng_eiface.c ng_ether.c
                         ng_fec.c ng_gif.c ng_iface.c
    sys/netgraph/atm     ng_atm.c
    sys/netinet          if_ether.c ip_divert.c ip_dummynet.c
                         ip_fw.h ip_fw2.c ip_mroute.c
    sys/netinet6         ip6_fw.c ip6_fw.h ip6_mroute.c
    sys/netipx           ipx_ip.c
    sys/netnatm          natm.c
    sys/nfsclient        bootp_subr.c nfs_diskless.c
    sys/pci              if_dc.c if_de.c if_devar.h if_pcn.c
                         if_rl.c if_sf.c if_sis.c if_sk.c if_ste.c
                         if_ti.c if_tl.c if_vr.c if_wb.c if_xl.c
    sys/security/mac_biba mac_biba.c
    sys/security/mac_lomac mac_lomac.c
    sys/sys              param.h
    usr.bin/netstat      if.c route.c
    usr.sbin/ifmcstat    ifmcstat.c
  Log:
  Replace the if_name and if_unit members of struct ifnet with new members
  if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
  and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
  This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
  device creation and configuration symantics.
  Approved By:    re (in principle)
  Reviewed By:    njl, imp
  Tested On:      i386, amd64, sparc64
  Obtained From:  NetBSD (if_xname)





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