igb now em driver in FreeBSD 12.0

[Clayton Milos]

I can confirm this. Had to change kernel conf to have em instead of igb and the device is detected as igb. 

---- Matthew Macy wrote ----

>They show up as igb. The only POLA violation is that for users of modules
>there is now no if_igb.ko so configuring an igb interface doesn't
>automatically load the (em) module.
>
>On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 07:04 Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk at inoc.net> wrote:
>
>> Reading the release notes, the igb driver has been merged into the Intel
>> em driver so that should be added to custom kernels. No problem.
>>
>> Question is, when the system reboots, are the NIC devices going to come
>> up with "emX" now or will they remain "igbX" ?
>>
>> Kind of important to know on remote upgrading a server...
>>
>>
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