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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:31:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB488A.40409@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EACA2A.1030005@candelatech.com>

Ben Greear wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> 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'.

I think it would make sense to add a note to the manpage
or something like that. Maybe also a runtime warning in
case its really (going to be) unmaintained.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 11:31 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
2008-10-07  2:32   ` Ben Greear
2008-10-07 11:31     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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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