From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Martin Josefsson <gandalf@mjufs.se>
Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>,
Milan Kocian <milon@wq.cz>, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:54:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB6A0D.8080106@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0810071510230.2675@wlug.westbo.se>
Martin Josefsson wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>>>> # ip l a l eth0 type vlan id 100
>
>> It would be better to have -d as a default, I was afraid of breaking
>> scripts of people sedding and awking around with the iproute output.
>
> It would also be good to have a help text describing 'ip l a' as
> 'ip l h' doesn't mention it at all in at least iproute2-ss080725 which
> seems to be the latest release.
>
> Until there's an easy accessible help text I'll stick to vconfig :)
> I know the iproute help texts aren't always that easy to read but at
> least they beat getting:
>
> # ip l a
> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
Thats probably correct, the rtnl_link interface has only been present
for a few versions in the kernel.
But I agree and I'll send a patch with improved help texts and a
manpage when I find some spare time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 13:54 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
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 [this message]
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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