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Date:      Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:37:41 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax
Message-ID:  <20050925213741.GG15981@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:41:05PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Hi folks,
>=20
> 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.

-- Brooks

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