On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:28:36AM +0200, Ragnar Lonn 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 > > You could always introduce a command-line switch that enabled the new > syntax ;)
What I'd like to do is to get rid of bogus command-line arguments so that I, as well as the others, could type only what is actually needed ;-) -- Yar _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
