Re: "ifconfig create" breaks between r238227 - r238290?

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Brandon Gooch
> <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote
>>>   in <20120709131957.GI1552@albert.catwhisker.org>:
>>>
>>> da> Just finished updating from r238227 to r238290 on the "head" slice of my
>>> da> laptop, and was unable to make use of the wlan(4) NIC; I captured the
>>> da> following via cut/paste from ttyv0:
>>> (snip)
>>> da>
>>> da> I glanced through the list of commits to head in that range, but
>>> da> didn't note anything glaringly obvious (yet).
>>> da>
>>> da> I hadn't tried a wired NIC on the laptop; I can, if there's anything
>>> da> likely to be of value in doing so.
>>>
>>>  Gr, it may be due to my change of r238279.  I am investigating it.
>>>
>>> -- Hiroki
>>
>> The issue with wpa_supplicant failing is due to the wlan0 interface
>> being cloned from one of the new usbus/usbpf devices instead of the
>> actual wireless network device:
>>
>> brandon@m6500[/home/brandon]
>> $ ifconfig -v wlan0
>> wlan0: flags=1<UP> metric 0 mtu 0
>>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>         groups: usbus
>>
>> How this might be happening is strange to me, how can the system be
>> confused as to which interface to clone from? Off-by-one error
>> somewhere?
>
> Hiroki just fixed it a little while ago.
> -Garrett

Thanks for the heads up, I kept dropping offline to debug, then when I
had something to report, I find that a fix had been committed -- now
that's service!

Thanks Hiroki!

-Brandon
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