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 15:54:21 +0200 Message-ID: <48EB6A0D.8080106@trash.net> References: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> <200810071520.56610.denys@visp.net.lb> <20081007124820.GG4606@ntm.vs.lam.cz> <200810071549.16647.denys@visp.net.lb> <48EB5C63.60501@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko , Milan Kocian , Ben Greear , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Martin Josefsson Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:46651 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753076AbYJGNy2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:54:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.