Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:30:01 -0600 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, weongyo@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More "noise" in ifconfig Message-ID: <AANLkTikfEDayzhdiGpT3OO45PyZsAqqmjNs7thzpA1Sx@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimhOK5HXm6KhEVCSFmwjM0DMdu-uaAh-1W6Nv0C@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimhOK5HXm6KhEVCSFmwjM0DMdu-uaAh-1W6Nv0C@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: > Just updated to HEAD and I saw the recent ifconfig, usb ethernet, > et all changes: > > $ ifconfig > usbus0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus1: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus2: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus3: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=c011b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE> > ether 00:1d:60:b6:eb:97 > inet 192.168.20.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.20.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT > <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>) > status: active > usbus4: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus5: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus6: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > usbus7: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 0 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > $ ifconfig -l > usbus0 usbus1 usbus2 usbus3 msk0 usbus4 usbus5 usbus6 usbus7 lo0 > > I don't have any USB ethernet devices, so I would expect usbus, et > all to be blank, but this would break a few (dumb) scenarios we have > at my work where it goes and looks at ifconfig -l (of course I've > tried convincing others to use ifconfig -l inet instead, but that was > to no avail). > This could potentially break other dumb scripts as well. > So the question is: what are we gaining with this additional, terse output? > Thanks, > -Garrett I believe a patch has been proposed that would eliminate the usbus devices from ifconfig output: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-November/021542.html -Brandonhelp
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