netdev - Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

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Message-ID: <48EA9096.8010505@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:26:30 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> vconfig prints bogus message, then autoloads the vlan module.
> It is still living in 2.4 time warp.
> 
> # vconfig add dummy0 1
> WARNING:  Could not open /proc/net/vlan/config.  Maybe you need to load the 8021q module, or maybe you are not using PROCFS??
> Added VLAN with VID == 1 to IF -:dummy0:-
> 
> Other nuisance:
> # vconfig --version
> Expecting argc to be 3-5, inclusive.  Was: 2
> ...
> 
> 1) users expect version
> 2) users don't expect argc related crap messages

Actually I don't maintain vconfig and I don't think Ben does either.
Its deprecated and iproute is what people should use, all the new
features are not supported by vconfig.

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