* Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> [2011-05-19 11:21]:
> > Note that the default ruleset does include a 'set skip on lo' but
> > that's fine since lo* interfaces are by default added to the "lo"
> > group.
> >
> > If people get bitten by this change, they could either add
> > an interface-name-matching group to each interface or we do that
> > automatically, as is done for vlan's, lo's etc.
> 
> What does anyone else think about this (making em0 a member
> of em automatically, etc.)? I don't think it's really all that
> important, there are usually better grouping criteria than
> "what driver supports the device" and people have to change
> their ruleset this release anyway.

we have specifically decided to NOT do this. what prupose does a group
of all interface of a certain driver have? I see zero for teh regular
drivers. the ones where it makes sense are the clonables like ppp and
for those we have automatic base class group, i. e. all tun interfaces
end up in the tun group by default.

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