Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax

From: Ragnar Lonn (raglon_at_packetfront.com)
Date: 09/29/05

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    Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:28:36 +0200
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>

    Yar Tikhiy wrote:

    >On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 02:37:41PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
    >
    >
    >>On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:41:05PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>As our ifconfig(8) is growing more options for special interface
    >>>types, inconsistencies sneak into their syntax. In particular,
    >>>-vlandev takes a useless argument (vlan(4) cannot attach to more
    >>>than one parent anyway) while, e.g., -carpdev doesn't need one.
    >>>Personally, I like the latter since having to type unneeded words
    >>>on the command line annoys me. Do you think that making -vlandev
    >>>need no arguments in CURRENT would break many existing things?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>I agree the argument is useless. Unfortunatly, it's going to be hard to
    >>deprecate the old syntax so we may need to keep it around.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Alas, there doesn't seem to exist an easy way to support both
    >syntaxes in the ifconfig(8) parameter parser. Perhaps we can
    >
    >

    You could always introduce a command-line switch that enabled the new
    syntax ;)

      /Ragnar

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