On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 01:27:17PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > > that strategy does rely on individual driver docs saying upfront that > > they can be created though, even if using create is not common. i wonder if > > ifconfig already knows what it can create, and could maybe be more > > helpful if "create" without an ifname gave a hint. > > dlg@rpi3b trees$ ifconfig -C > aggr bpe bridge carp egre enc eoip etherip gif gre lo mgre mpe mpip mpw nvgre > pair pflog pflow pfsync ppp pppoe svlan switch tap tpmr trunk tun veb vether > vlan vport vxlan wg > > the "interface can be created paragraph" is in most of the manpages for > these drivers, except for pair, pfsync, pppoe, and vether (and > veb/vport). some of them could be improved, eg, bpe and switch. >
oops, missed that flag! i had thought maybe if there was such an option, we wouldn;t need the "if can be created" blurb in every page. but i suppose we do need to say it somewhere. another issue is that the text is inconsistent across pages. jmc