From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid? Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:32:10 -0700 Message-ID: <48EACA2A.1030005@candelatech.com> References: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> <48EA9096.8010505@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:59212 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752487AbYJGDLS (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:11:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48EA9096.8010505@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Patrick McHardy wrote: > 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. I can fix these things if anyone cares, but leaving it crufty might be a better way to encourage folks to use 'ip'. Ben > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com