Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax

From: Yar Tikhiy (yar_at_comp.chem.msu.su)
Date: 09/29/05

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To: Ragnar Lonn <raglon@packetfront.com>

    On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:28:36AM +0200, Ragnar Lonn wrote:
    > 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 ;)

    What I'd like to do is to get rid of bogus command-line arguments
    so that I, as well as the others, could type only what is actually
    needed ;-) 

    -- 
Yar
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