Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:33:13 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-current@shapeshifter.se>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax Message-ID: <20050929233313.GD3035@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20050929231524.GB18164@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su> <20050925213741.GG15981@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050928110413.GE86457@comp.chem.msu.su> <433C14EE.6010105@shapeshifter.se> <20050929231524.GB18164@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:15:24PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Fredrik Lindberg wrote: > > 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 > > >survive the pain of syntax change in CURRENT only, with a > > >heads-up message sent, release notes updated, etc? I wonder > > >if many people use "ifconfig -vlandev XXX" in automated tools. > > > > > > > Why not use something simple such as the following (maybe even > > without that printf(). > > > > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 create > > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0 > > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 -vlandev > > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0 > > root@genesis> ./ifconfig vlan0 -vlandev em0 > > Passing interface to -vlandev is deprecated. > > Excellent, this is the perfect solution. Let's get something like this > committed and MFC'd so it goes out in 6.0. Working on this right now... -- Yar
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