From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [IPROUTE]: Fix up "ip link" help text
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:21:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081013072129.2564130f@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EBCE59.3080401@trash.net>
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:02:17 +0200
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > Runtime dependand help doesn't look sane. Help should always show all possible
> > options/command while trying to use unsupported option should display error
> > message.
> >
>
> That makes sense. But don't complain to me about the quality
> of the error messages afterwards please :)
>
>
I applied a variant of Patrick's original patch. I added text for delete, and
avoided some code movement. The help text should only show what is supported
otherwise there will be user complaints.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 15:17 [IPROUTE]: Fix up "ip link" help text Patrick McHardy
[not found] ` <200810072206.03062.arekm@maven.pl>
2008-10-07 21:02 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 21:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-13 14:21 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-10-13 16:36 ` Ben Greear
[not found] ` <200810131917.00864.arekm@maven.pl>
2008-10-13 18:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
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