Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:28:36 +0200 From: Ragnar Lonn <raglon@packetfront.com> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax Message-ID: <433BA5B4.7020506@packetfront.com> In-Reply-To: <20050928110413.GE86457@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su> <20050925213741.GG15981@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050928110413.GE86457@comp.chem.msu.su>
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Yar Tikhiy wrote: >On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 02:37:41PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > >>On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:41:05PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: >> >> >>>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. >> >> > >Alas, there doesn't seem to exist an easy way to support both >syntaxes in the ifconfig(8) parameter parser. Perhaps we can > > You could always introduce a command-line switch that enabled the new syntax ;) /Ragnar
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