Until support for bonding params is added to networkd, this will be
neccessary in order to use bonding parameters (i.e. miimon, mode).
This also makes it such that the 8012q module will only be loaded if
the network config makes use of VLANs.
In order for networkd to properly configure the network interfaces, the configs must be
prefixed to ensure that they load in the correct order (parent interfaces have a lower
prefix than their children).
It is valid for an interface to reference another, otherwise undeclared,
interface (i.e. a bond enslaves eth0 without eth0 having its own iface stanza).
In order to associate the two interfaces, the undeclared interface needs to be
implicitly created so that it can be referenced by the other. This adds the
capability to forward-declare interfaces in addition to cleaning up the
process a little bit.
