From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 12:47:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628A716A424; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:47:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (comp.chem.msu.su [158.250.32.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A227843D5A; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:47:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8TCle6H074603; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:47:40 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: (from yar@localhost) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j8TClbcB074597; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:47:37 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yar) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:47:37 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy To: Ragnar Lonn Message-ID: <20050929124736.GB73604@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su> <20050925213741.GG15981@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050928110413.GE86457@comp.chem.msu.su> <433BA5B4.7020506@packetfront.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433BA5B4.7020506@packetfront.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:47:44 -0000 On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:28:36AM +0200, Ragnar Lonn wrote: > Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 02:37:41PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > >>On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:41:05PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > >> > >>>As our ifconfig(8) is growing more options for special interface > >>>types, inconsistencies sneak into their syntax. In particular, > >>>-vlandev takes a useless argument (vlan(4) cannot attach to more > >>>than one parent anyway) while, e.g., -carpdev doesn't need one. > >>>Personally, I like the latter since having to type unneeded words > >>>on the command line annoys me. Do you think that making -vlandev > >>>need no arguments in CURRENT would break many existing things? > >> > >>I agree the argument is useless. Unfortunatly, it's going to be hard to > >>deprecate the old syntax so we may need to keep it around. > > > >Alas, there doesn't seem to exist an easy way to support both > >syntaxes in the ifconfig(8) parameter parser. Perhaps we can > > You could always introduce a command-line switch that enabled the new > syntax ;) What I'd like to do is to get rid of bogus command-line arguments so that I, as well as the others, could type only what is actually needed ;-) -- Yar