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Message-ID: <48EACA2A.1030005@candelatech.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:32:10 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?
Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 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.
I can fix these things if anyone cares, but leaving it crufty might be a
better
way to encourage folks to use 'ip'.
Ben
>
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