Subject: Re: ifmedia change
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2001 11:43:30
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> If you do `ifconfig foo0 auto' when foo0 doesn't do auto you get a
> `Device not configured' error, which isn't very obvious.
>
> The following would change it to `Invalid argument', which is more
> helpful. Another way would be to make ifconfig recognise this case.
> Any comments on this?
That would be fine with me.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>