netdev - Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

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Message-ID: <48EB6AE1.9080005@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:57:53 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Martin Josefsson <gandalf@...fs.se>
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?

Martin Josefsson wrote:
> 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

Actually it seems something broke probing in the kernel, let me look
into it.
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