[Toybox] complaining about 'ifconfig' - better use 'ip'

[Bastian Bittorf]

* Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> [05.04.2013 09:00]:
> What exactly is the _problem_? The existing ifconfig works fine. This

and that is the dangerous thing about it:

it's working "enough", so ip will be always missing (because there
is so little Leidensdruck: 'psychological strain')

> But this "Oh no, the code is old! Code RUSTS!" I don't get it. Linux

the argument was:
the code/idea/implementation is old AND incomplete AND inconsistent.

only old is not a problem but all 3 together.

> 2.4 doesn't support modern hardware, containers, tickless operation,
> sucks at threading and SMP. But if it had decent arm support I expect
> android would have been based on it because it ran in a quarter the
> memory the current one needs.

adventurous hypothesis. for a modern network device you want a modern
network stack which has 2.4 not. for a modern device with multitasking
you want a modern scheduler and a modern VM which has 2.4 not. for a
modern device with many interfaces (HDMI, USB, wifi) you want support
for the attachable devices which 2.4 has not. in fact it does not matter
if you have 1 gig or 1.008 gig of memory...

lets stop the discussion here, it's only timeconsuming and the
opinions are deadlocked somehow. lets see how it performs and maybe
in autumn i will jump in for 'ip'.

bye, bastian