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if_tuntap: create /dev aliases when a tuntap device gets renamed

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if_tuntap: create /dev aliases when a tuntap device gets renamed

Currently, if you do:

$ ifconfig tun0 create
$ ifconfig tun0 name wg0
$ ls -l /dev | egrep 'wg|tun'

You will see tun0, but no wg0. In fact, it's slightly more annoying to make
the association between the new name and the old name in order to open the
device (if it hadn't been opened during the rename).

Register an eventhandler for ifnet_arrival_events and catch interface
renames. We can determine if the ifnet is a tun easily enough from the
if_dname, which matches the cevsw.d_name from the associated tuntap_driver.

Some locking dance is required because renames don't require the device to
be opened, so it could go away in the middle of handling the ioctl, but as
soon as we've verified this isn't the case we can attempt to busy the tun
and either bail out if the tun device is dying, or we can proceed with the
rename.

We only create these aliases on a best-effort basis. Renaming a tun device
to "usbctl", which doesn't exist as an ifnet but does as a /dev, is clearly
not that disastrous, but we can't and won't create a /dev for that.

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rS353056: if_tuntap: add a busy/unbusy mechanism, replace destroy OPEN check
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