Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-08 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Claudio Jeker(cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com) on 2017.06.07 16:05:15 +0200: > Be careful, AFAIK the capitalisation of IEEE standards does matter. > You're right 802.1Q is the correct spelling but not for 802.1ad (where the > lowercase version is the offical standard). IIRC the status of the > standard

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-07 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:58:42PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 07:32:18AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 02:51:42PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > > > > > > > you are breaking the format of this page if you start to move specific > > > >

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-07 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 07:17:16PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > tweaked diff > yes, looks good. jmc > Index: ifconfig.8 > === > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8,v > retrieving revision 1.282 > diff -u -p -r1.282

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-07 Thread David Gwynne
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:01:41AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:58:42PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > > > > > why not just add your one option to the vlan section, which is what it's > > > relevant to, for now. if in the future you make it work in other areas, > > >

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-07 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:58:42PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > > > why not just add your one option to the vlan section, which is what it's > > relevant to, for now. if in the future you make it work in other areas, > > we can see whether it warrants a shuffle. > > well, vnetid and parent

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-07 Thread David Gwynne
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 07:32:18AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 02:51:42PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > > > > > you are breaking the format of this page if you start to move specific > > > subsytems into the main body. > > > > > > that makes things less clear. for

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-07 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 02:51:42PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > > > > you are breaking the format of this page if you start to move specific > > subsytems into the main body. > > > > that makes things less clear. for example, can i use the parent-device > > stuff on any type of interface or just

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-06 Thread David Gwynne
> On 6 Jun 2017, at 18:12, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:56:28AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: >> this adds doco for the parent options in ifconfig, and moves vnetid >> up into generic options list. >> >> the vlan(4) specific doco has enough lies and

Re: ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-06 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:56:28AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: > this adds doco for the parent options in ifconfig, and moves vnetid > up into generic options list. > > the vlan(4) specific doco has enough lies and omissions that id > rather get rid of it. > > ok? > morning. you are breaking

ifconfig.8 doco for vnetid and parent options

2017-06-05 Thread David Gwynne
this adds doco for the parent options in ifconfig, and moves vnetid up into generic options list. the vlan(4) specific doco has enough lies and omissions that id rather get rid of it. ok? Index: ifconfig.8 === RCS file: