Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:26:41 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de driver broken with SMC 8434BT Message-ID: <199710140126.SAA07914@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:14:49 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013201314.3769B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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> > BTW, I've been thinking about yanking the "-m" option and > > simply always outputting this information instead. I found myself > > spending way too much time trying to find "-m" (when I didn't > > know it existed and thus didn't know that I should be looking for > > it). Opinions? > > When did you have in mind to output this? Always, when ifconfig'ing > a device that has multiple media, only when changing the media > type...? I can see this being really useful in some situations, but > pretty cumbersome in others. I don't think it would be cumbersome. It just adds a single line to the ifconfig output. I like David's idea. Ifconfig already tells you practically everything about the interface anyway. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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