RFC: interface description

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> Xin LI wrote:
>>> While playing with some OpenBSD installation I found that they have an
>>> interesting feature - adding description to a NIC.  This is useful for
>>> system administrators to "tag" the interface, also, the ladvd program
>>> has a feature to use the SIOCSIFDESCR ioctl to document the remote CDP
>> 
>> Something similar was rejected at least two times :)
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83622
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/110720
>
> not rejected..
>
> suffered from lack of enthusiasm maybe.

My point has always been - if I have to add/do an ioctl I can always also
use a library call that will read it from a .txt, .xml, .db file
or whatever and I don't have to go to the kernel, handle all the
string length problems there, ... especially as the kernel cannot do
anything with that string.

/bz

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