From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:26:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EA9096.8010505@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> vconfig prints bogus message, then autoloads the vlan module.
> It is still living in 2.4 time warp.
>
> # vconfig add dummy0 1
> WARNING: Could not open /proc/net/vlan/config. Maybe you need to load the 8021q module, or maybe you are not using PROCFS??
> Added VLAN with VID == 1 to IF -:dummy0:-
>
> Other nuisance:
> # vconfig --version
> Expecting argc to be 3-5, inclusive. Was: 2
> ...
>
> 1) users expect version
> 2) users don't expect argc related crap messages
Actually I don't maintain vconfig and I don't think Ben does either.
Its deprecated and iproute is what people should use, all the new
features are not supported by vconfig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-06 18:24 Could you make vconfig less stupid? Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-06 22:26 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-10-07 2:32 ` Ben Greear
2008-10-07 11:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 12:20 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-10-07 12:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 12:48 ` Milan Kocian
2008-10-07 12:49 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-10-07 12:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 13:16 ` Martin Josefsson
2008-10-07 13:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 13:57 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 13:28 ` Milan Kocian
2008-10-07 13:29 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 14:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
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