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Re: kern/53546: ifconfig tapXXXXX problem (wrong unit name or panic)



    Date:        Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:06:06 -0400
    From:        christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
    Message-ID:  <20180824100606.0CFF417FDA1%rebar.astron.com@localhost>

  | Why don't we make cf_unit and dv_unit unsigned int?

Even if there was enough minor unit number space to support that,
all it is doing is altering the values at which weirdness appears.

I cannot imagine a use case for > 30000 pseudo devices of any
type (or any other kind of interface or device) - the closest I can
see if with vlans where it is nice to be able to have the vlan number
and the interface number matching - but that takes just 12 bits.

kre



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