netdev - Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

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Message-ID: <48EB488A.40409@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:31:22 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

Ben Greear wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> 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'.

I think it would make sense to add a note to the manpage
or something like that. Maybe also a runtime warning in
case its really (going to be) unmaintained.
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