public inbox for developer@lists.illumos.org (since 2011-08)
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Olaf Bohlen <olbohlen@eenfach.de>
To: "H. William Welliver" <william@welliver.org>
Cc: illumos-developer <developer@lists.illumos.org>
Subject: Re: [developer] [REVIEW] 16763: dladm simnet functionality should be documented
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:33:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wu3ikv12rvn.fsf@eenfach.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <862F4DFB-01AF-4639-BA61-8A87BC5060B6@welliver.org> (H. William Welliver's message of "Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:20:52 -0400")

"H. William Welliver" <william@welliver.org> writes:

Hi,

> I did add a brief description of what simnets are in the “Description”
> section, as that is where other types of objects (vnics, etherstubs,
> etc) are introduced. I’ll also willingly admit that I don’t normally
> read that section and jump right to the command details but I was
> trying to remain consistent with the existing document.

Yes, I meant something like "the dladm create-simnet creates an
instance of a simulated network device mostly used for debugging
purposes" or similar...so an indirect formulation - because a lot
of people just skip the descriptions ;)

Regards,

Olaf

-- 
      ~       Olaf Bohlen - olbohlen@eenfach.de
      |~~     Het
     /|  \    Bruine
 ___/_|___\   Leven
   \__n____/# DGCN2

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-12  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-11  5:24 william
2024-09-11 18:48 ` [developer] " Olaf Bohlen
2024-09-12  4:20   ` H. William Welliver
2024-09-12  8:33     ` Olaf Bohlen [this message]
2024-09-12  8:46       ` Joshua M. Clulow
2024-09-27 21:21 william

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=wu3ikv12rvn.fsf@eenfach.de \
    --to=olbohlen@eenfach.de \
    --cc=developer@lists.illumos.org \
    --cc=william@welliver.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).