Bug#433568: VLAN support within D-I

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 12:57:19PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 01:41:41PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>>Colin Watson <[email protected]> (2026-07-30):
>>>Once this reaches daily builds
>>>(https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/), I'd very much appreciate
>>>testing by others in live environments that use VLANs to confirm that I
>>>didn't break anything.  I don't use them routinely myself; I set up a test
>>>environment so that I could connect a test laptop to a trunk port, but
>>>there's always the possibility that I made mistakes in both the patch and my
>>>test environment that cancelled each other out.
>>
>>I think the “test laptop” bit increases the chance my hunch in #1143094
>>might be correct: you wouldn't have gotten a short name like ens3 there,
>>but something long-ish like enx00e04c680be4 or enx2e7cf2e89a52, hiding
>>the alignment/padding issue?
>
>enp0s25 in my case, but yes, since it seems that the kernel uses %6s 
>here, that's long enough to hide the issue.  Will fix, thanks!

This is fixed (hw-detect 1.177, 
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/-/commit/f655fc230ce9668a5999c20ca3efa468a232d05b).

There's also a draft documentation patch up for review in 
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/merge_requests/46.