On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <l...@oddbit.com> wrote: >> Can you explain why -c is necessary to stay compatible with the >> current command? The current command takes one argument and fails if >> the interface doesn't exist. > > I wanted to preserve the "fail on unknown interface" semantics, even > with multiple interfaces on the command line. I'm not sure in > retrospect if this matters or not. It seemed worthwhile to have to > have both behaviors (because maybe the unknown interface is due to a > spelling error and it *should* fail?). I'm not wedded to this option, > and if you think that removing it simplifies things I'm all for it.
Thanks for explaining. I think having both behaviors is useful. If a gPXE script is used on a range of different machines it could be handy to skip unknown interfaces. On the other hand, it can make sense to error for the reason you mentioned. Stefan _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list gPXE@etherboot.org http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
