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 13:31:22 +0200 Message-ID: <48EB488A.40409@trash.net> References: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> <48EA9096.8010505@trash.net> <48EACA2A.1030005@candelatech.com> 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: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:42363 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752915AbYJGLb3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:31:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48EACA2A.1030005@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.