On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 06:17:38PM +0200, Fredrik Lindberg wrote: > Hi > > Due to some exciting interaction between kldunload, devctl/devd, rc(8) > and ifconfig it's currently impossible to unload a network interface > module (without stopping devd first). > > The feature of having ifconfig loading modules was discussed briefly > on current_at_ a while ago, but apparently nothing came out of it. > > ifmaybeload() is called quite early in ifconfig, my suggestion is to > only call it if there is at least one more argument except the interface > name given on the command line. > diff -u -u -r1.130 ifconfig.c > --- ifconfig.c 24 Mar 2007 20:26:54 -0000 1.130 > +++ ifconfig.c 12 May 2007 16:13:39 -0000 > _at__at_ -229,7 +229,8 _at__at_ > argc--, argv++; > > /* check and maybe load support for this interface */ > - ifmaybeload(ifname); > + if (argc >= 1) > + ifmaybeload(ifname); A similar solution to this was committed in rev1.129 of ifconfig.c but then backed out later as the module loading proved to be feature used by quite a few people. I think an example was being able to load and initialise an interface by just trying 'ifconfig foo0'. I think a different way to solve this is to add a argument to ifconfig to suppress the module loading and then use it at the appropriate places in rc. AndrewReceived on Sat May 12 2007 - 18:20:06 UTC
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