TODO - remove dependency on ifconfig

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Wed Jan 11 08:40:01 CET 2023


On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:19 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> It would be good if DTS and DPDK docs and test did not use the ifconfig command.
> Ifconfig is not maintained and is deprecated. Some distros have stopped shipping it.
> Ifconfig only used ioctl's and was never updated to handle the many kinds of interfaces
> and devices in Linux.
>
> The documentation part is relatively straight forward, but there are lots

Can you send patches for the doc?

> of calls to ifconfig in DTS.

Cc: dts@ and people involved in dts cleaning up


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David Marchand



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