On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:41:05PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > Hi folks, > > 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. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
pgpYhWvjxppKt.pgp
Description: PGP signature
