[PATCH] second pass at the "ip" patch

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 17 April 2006 1:22 pm, Jason Schoon wrote:
> On 4/17/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Jason Schoon wrote:
> > > I took Robert's patch for the config menu cleanup of
> > > ifupdown/ip/ifconfig, and tweaked it a bit.  Attached is the
> > > cumulative result.
> > >
> > > I think it is an improvement, and worth applying.  I would
> > > appreciate if Robert, and somebody who uses ifupdown could look it
> > > over.
>
> Yep, definate confusion potential.  You'll be rday, Rob L. will be
> Rob, now we just need one for Rob Sullivan ;-)

Actually I've gone by the login handle "landley" online for years, and don't 
mind that.  (There are two others I'm aware of on the planet: my father and 
brother.  The name was made up by a german immigrant named Landecker who 
immigrated to the US during world war I and decided to make up something that 
didn't sound so german, and I am a proud bearer of this tradition.)

> > just to summarize the semantics of the "ip"-related stuff, the menu
> > will allow you to select which of the "ip" subcommands you want to
> > support:
> >
> >   [*] ip
> >         [*] ip address
> >         [ ] ip link
> >         [*] ip route
> >         [ ] ip tunnel
> >
> > whichever ones you select, you'll *automatically* get the short forms
> > of those commands installed (ipaddr, iplink, etc.) which you can use
> > or not as you see fit.
> >
> > you *don't* get to select those short forms independently -- they only
> > come when you pick their "ip" equivalents.  was that the consensus?
>
> I think you and I are the consensus of people who care at this point.
> Anybody else want to chime in?

Sounds good to me...

Rob
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