On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:27:00PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: > Hi, > > Andreas, i do not understand the reasoning for l2tp to be higher in > the list than the link command. I think it's quite common for the more > experienced "ip" users to use the "l" abbreviation instead of the full > "link" command. > > Can you please explain why l2tp should be added before link and not > after so the users of the more popular and older "link" command > wouldn't have to reteach themselves to type more to avoid hitting the > rarely needed l2tp command?
The reason is the alphabetic sorting of commands, which has been the way commands usually gets expanded in iproute2. > > So my suggestion is to swap the lines to make "link" prioritised to > retain the old behaviour. Please see http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commitdiff;h=5aa08f6bf4107f8aec43c0678466a314dbd0d054 -- Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
