netdev - Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

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Message-Id: <200810071520.56610.denys@visp.net.lb>
Date:	Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:20:56 +0300
From:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

Probably to make people use iproute2, it is good to inform them, that iproute2 
can do that job. 

For example i didn't knew that ip can make vlan's and etc.
And even embedded help doesn't help almost.

Something like attached trivial patch, at least will give idea, what to do.

man page i can edit too, but i guess it is better someone with good english 
will do that.

On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 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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