Peter Memishian wrote:
> While I'm all in favour of being backward compatible, sometimes you
> have to weigh up the advantages of continuing to support something
> that has never worked well (eg modinsert/modremove) vs upsetting a
> small number of people and just removing it to make the program just
> a bit saner to deal with.
I'm not sure exactly how you're scoping "backward compatible" here, but to
be clear: wholesale removal ifconfig is unacceptable from a compatibility
standpoint, and I cannot recall any cases where we have removed a
documented subcommand from ifconfig. For instance, with Clearview, a
number of ifconfig tunnel subcommands will be supported by dladm instead,
and we will encourage the use of the dladm subcommands. However, the
ifconfig commands will continue to work.
Sure. I was just speculating about it being nice to be able
to remove some of the cruft from ifconfig if there was little
or no use of it (or the subcommands were "broken" by design.)
Darren
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