FYI: if_capabilities needs to grow - proposing extension using nvlists

Hans Petter Selasky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi,

The "ifp->if_capabilities" field is out of bits and needs to grow. The 
plan is to call this a legacy field and use nvlists to extend this field.

Please see here for planned changes to ifconfig and if IOCTLs if you are 
interested doing review and testing:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32551

--HPS
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