Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:24:06 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: "Ilya A. Arhipov" <pa36ouHu4er@yandex.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More "noise" in ifconfig Message-ID: <AANLkTinyoncv_h7RXwjgMgPppzGcBzP=o%2BdRP8LWiaTO@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <540611291184489@web44.yandex.ru> References: <AANLkTimhOK5HXm6KhEVCSFmwjM0DMdu-uaAh-1W6Nv0C@mail.gmail.com> <540611291184489@web44.yandex.ru>
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2010/11/30 Ilya A. Arhipov <pa36ouHu4er@yandex.ru>:
> 30.11.10, 20:21, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi@gmail.com>:
>
>> 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?
...
> Log:
> Don't print usbus[0-9] interfaces that it's not the interesting
> interface type for ifconfig(8).
> svn commit: r216089
Yeah, I saw that earlier.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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