From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 13 18:27:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA09300 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA09295 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07914; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710140126.SAA07914@austin.polstra.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: David Greenman , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de driver broken with SMC 8434BT In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:14:49 CDT." Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:26:41 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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