On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:09:53 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 11/24/2010 1:21 AM:
(...) >> No need to be "picky", everything can be improved. Error management and >> user interaction are also an important part of programming design and >> development. > > I think you're assuming that since mii-tool doesn't bomb out when > specifying a virtual NIC, but actually shows some data on link speed and > duplex, that it _should_ give an error for those instead. If it bombed > out instead, what would you be saying? You'd be saying what I have: > It's not designed to work with virtual NICs. > > Write the developers and ask them to make the next version bomb with > virtual NICs, which is what it should do. Why bombing? A warning message is far more elegant and useful since makes the user to question himself if he is using the right tool for the job. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.24.10.58...@gmail.com
