netdev - Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0810071510230.2675@wlug.westbo.se>
Date:	Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:16:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Martin Josefsson <gandalf@...fs.se>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
cc:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>,
	Milan Kocian <milon@...cz>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:

>>> # ip l a l eth0 type vlan id 100

> It would be better to have -d as a default, I was afraid of breaking
> scripts of people sedding and awking around with the iproute output.

It would also be good to have a help text describing 'ip l a' as
'ip l h' doesn't mention it at all in at least iproute2-ss080725 which 
seems to be the latest release.

Until there's an easy accessible help text I'll stick to vconfig :)
I know the iproute help texts aren't always that easy to read but at least 
they beat getting:

# ip l a
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported

:)

/Martin
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