Re: recent ifconfig change [was: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits]

[ws%tools.de@localhost (Wolfgang Solfrank)]

>  > I was going to say this myself, but you beat me to it :-).
>  > 
>  > I _very_ much appreciate it if a command's output gives me some hint on
>  > its usage, especially if it doesn't cost anything.  I think that this is
>  > what makes the difference between cool vs. usable programs.
> 
> Argh, ok... hopefully it doesn't make the output to annoyingly long.

Huh?  I didn't mean to have the output of "man ifconfig" appearing on an
"ifconfig -m xxx" :-).

More something along the lines of:

...
        supported for Ethernet:
                media autoselect
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media 10baseT
                media 100baseTX mediaopt loopback
        supported for Token Ring:
                media <whatever>
...
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