> From: na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:44:45 +0000 (UTC) > > Todd T. Fries <t...@fries.net> wrote: > > > If there are desires to improve this (I hear Naddy grumbling!) then the > > stomach to break backwards compat must be present, or suggestions on how > > to do it without breaking backwards compat must be suggested. > > My suggestion is two-fold: > > * Introduce a new format. This new format will ignore # comments, > call ! commands, but otherwise pass on everything unchanged to > ifconfig. I'm neutral on the matter of retaining "dhcp" and > "rtsol" as shortcuts for "!dhclient \$if" and "!rtsol \$if". > > * To maintain backward compatibility, retain the old parsing for > hostname.* files. Interface configuration files in the new format > will have a different name; if.* or whatever. > > Does that sound workable?
I don't really see what this buys us. You still have to maintain the backwards compat code. You'll end up with an inconsistent mess of hostname.if and if.whatever files. And all of this to fix what exactly?
