From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 25 21:38:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2629416A49A; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:38:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAA243D48; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:38:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j8PLbguP011896; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:37:42 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j8PLbfvU011894; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:37:41 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:37:41 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Yar Tikhiy Message-ID: <20050925213741.GG15981@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AGZzQgpsuUlWC1xT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:38:06 -0000 --AGZzQgpsuUlWC1xT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --AGZzQgpsuUlWC1xT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDNxijXY6L6fI4GtQRAnjPAKCo5Lcv8mtoS2NOCL1UKGl5urnPAgCggrVp K7C1eiGDSBgnvE+42mar5X8= =8Fky -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AGZzQgpsuUlWC1xT--