Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax

From: Yar Tikhiy (yar_at_comp.chem.msu.su)
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:03:45 +0400
    To: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-current@shapeshifter.se>
    
    

    On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Fredrik Lindberg 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
    > >survive the pain of syntax change in CURRENT only, with a
    > >heads-up message sent, release notes updated, etc? I wonder
    > >if many people use "ifconfig -vlandev XXX" in automated tools.
    > >
    >
    > Why not use something simple such as the following (maybe even
    > without that printf().
    >
    > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 create
    > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0
    > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 -vlandev
    > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0
    > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 -vlandev em0
    > Passing interface to -vlandev is deprecated.
    >
    >
    > Index: ifvlan.c
    > ===================================================================
    > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifvlan.c,v
    > retrieving revision 1.7
    > diff -u -r1.7 ifvlan.c
    > --- ifvlan.c 31 Dec 2004 19:46:27 -0000 1.7
    > +++ ifvlan.c 29 Sep 2005 16:19:32 -0000
    > @@ -130,6 +130,9 @@
    > {
    > struct vlanreq vreq;
    >
    > + if (val != NULL)
    > + fprintf(stderr, "Passing interface to -vlandev is
    > deprecated.\n");
    > +
    > bzero((char *)&vreq, sizeof(struct vlanreq));
    > ifr.ifr_data = (caddr_t)&vreq;
    >
    > @@ -148,7 +151,7 @@
    > static struct cmd vlan_cmds[] = {
    > DEF_CMD_ARG("vlan", setvlantag),
    > DEF_CMD_ARG("vlandev", setvlandev),
    > - DEF_CMD_ARG("-vlandev", unsetvlandev),
    > + DEF_CMD_OPTARG("-vlandev",
    > unsetvlandev),
    > DEF_CMD("vlanmtu", IFCAP_VLAN_MTU, setifcap),
    > DEF_CMD("-vlanmtu", -IFCAP_VLAN_MTU, setifcap),
    > DEF_CMD("vlanhwtag", IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING, setifcap),

    Thank you very much for this suggestion! I missed DEF_CMD_OPTARG()
    completely, perhaps because it didn't seem to be used in ifconfig
    *.c files yet.

    -- 
    Yar
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