Re: [PATCH 15/18] conf: Move "all" handling to port specifier

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 11:40:35PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Tue,  7 Apr 2026 13:16:27 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > Currently -[tTuU] all is handled separately in conf_ports() before calling
> > conf_ports_spec().  Earlier changes mean we can now move this handling to
> > conf_ports_spec().  This makes the code slightly simpler, but more
> > importantly it allows some useful combinations we couldn't previously do,
> > such as
> > 	-t 127.0.0.1/all
> > or
> > 	-u %eth2/all
> 
> It would probably be good to update the man page at some point with
> this (we can also leave it undocumented for a while though, as it
> doesn't break any existing functionality).

Ok, next draft has some man page (and usage()) updates.  They'll want
some review for clarity.  And also the fact that I don't really know
how roff works.

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