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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules Makefile src/usr.sbin Makefile
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            Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes:
: arlconfig(8) looks functionally identical to wicontrol(8), not to ifconfig(8).
: As such, it's probably best to rename it to arlconfig(8).  I agree it doesn't
: make sense to duplicate options already provided by ifconfig(8), but it looks
: there are some options (and in wicontrol(8) too) that aren't supported by
: ifconfig(8), these should be kept.  (While wicontrol(8) has a history, this
: tool doesn't, so no point for duplicating ifconfig(8) functionality.)

if it is functionally equivolent to wicontrol, then we need to
abstract further.  At the very least, it should implement a wicontrol
interface so that we don't need yet another driver control program in
the tree.  The awi driver managed to do this, and it has nothing at
all to do with Lucent hardware.

Warner