David Gibson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:51:54PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
[snip]
>> I've CC:ed David Gibson in case he has some advice - the concept is to
>> indicate a dereference of /aliases nodes so that us lazy engineers don't
>> have to cut'n'paste the whole long path from t
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:51:54PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thinking out loud... we could define the syntax that a leading "*"
>>> indicates the first part of the path is a dereference of /aliases.
>>>
>
Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
>>
>> Thinking out loud... we could define the syntax that a leading "*"
>> indicates the first part of the path is a dereference of /aliases.
>>
>> Assuming
>> /aliases/soc = /[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> /aliases/ethernet0 =
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
> Thinking out loud... we could define the syntax that a leading "*"
> indicates the first part of the path is a dereference of /aliases.
>
> Assuming
> /aliases/soc = /[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /aliases/ethernet0 = /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.../enet0
Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an
>>> aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip the
>>> leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an
>> aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip
>> the
>> leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an exact match to an
>>
Kumar Gala wrote:
> If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an
> aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip the
> leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an exact match to an alias.
>
> In the future we could try and prefix matching so the ali
If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an
aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip the
leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an exact match to an alias.
In the future we could try and prefix matching so the alias could be used
as a shorte
