On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:34:29 +0200
Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
> 
> In order to not confuse reader, write help messages into stderr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>

This does make devlink consistent with other parts of iproute2.
But the most common coding standards, back to Unix, and GNU are
that help messages should go to stdout so that:
  $ ip -h | more
would work as expected.


 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8813/should-the-usage-message-go-to-stderr-or-stdout/8815
 https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html 

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