Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:26:30 +0200

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> vconfig prints bogus message, then autoloads the vlan module.
> It is still living in 2.4 time warp.
> 
> # vconfig add dummy0 1
> WARNING:  Could not open /proc/net/vlan/config.  Maybe you need to load the 8021q module, or maybe you are not using PROCFS??
> Added VLAN with VID == 1 to IF -:dummy0:-
> 
> Other nuisance:
> # vconfig --version
> Expecting argc to be 3-5, inclusive.  Was: 2
> ...
> 
> 1) users expect version
> 2) users don't expect argc related crap messages

Actually I don't maintain vconfig and I don't think Ben does either.
Its deprecated and iproute is what people should use, all the new
features are not supported by vconfig.