I think people can install from backports if they want the special features in PF, PFSYNC, CARP and QUOTA, but if_msk causes kernel panic on first boot. It looks like a big showstopper to me. If backporting the driver from HEAD is not acceptable, we could consider other options, like removing this driver from kernel (and building it as a module). What do you think?
Backport of if_msk seems be the right way from my POV. I would just use backport from current 8-STABLE svn diff http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.1.0/sys/dev/msk http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/sys/dev/msk Are you able to test it on real HW ? Petr