From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid? Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:26:30 +0200 Message-ID: <48EA9096.8010505@trash.net> References: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:55946 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751552AbYJFW0j (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:26:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.