Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] thanks for r46829 / replace ifconfig-usage with ip

2015-09-11 Thread Bastian Bittorf
* Steven Barth [11.09.2015 11:44]: > Well it's not yet abandoned we still have to migrate a lot of > stuff under target/ and in the feeds. ifconfig and route won't > go away before that happens. thanks for pointing at it: user@build:~/openwrt$ git grep 'ifconfig ' | wc -l 57 i see that as a dire

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] thanks for r46829 / replace ifconfig-usage with ip

2015-09-11 Thread Steven Barth
Well it's not yet abandoned we still have to migrate a lot of stuff under target/ and in the feeds. ifconfig and route won't go away before that happens. Besides I guess it's a more pressing issue now with IPv6 and so on where the old tools are relatively useless. As we are making some more ground

[OpenWrt-Devel] thanks for r46829 / replace ifconfig-usage with ip

2015-09-11 Thread Bastian Bittorf
Thanks for fully switching to 'ip' and abandon 'ifconfig/route'. Back in 2008 with r11157 i started the first discussion with a patch and the core team was against it. i tried again in 2009, but the additional 12k was just to much [1] for adding. Several discussions in IRC always leaded to 'too mu