On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:11:12AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 03:18:59PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:46:15 +0300 > > Leon Romanovsky <l...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:37:35AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 08:33:01PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > > > > > > > My initial plan was to put all parsers under their respective names, > > > > > in > > > > > the similar way as I did for caps: $ rdma dev show mlx5_4 caps > > > > > > > > I think you should have a useful summary display similar to 'ip a' and > > > > other commands. > > > > > > > > guid(s), subnet prefix or default gid for IB, lid/lmc, link state, > > > > speed, mtu, pkeys protocol(s) > > > > > > It will, but before I would like to see this tool be a part of > > > iproute2, so other people will be able to extend it in addition > > > to me. > > > > > > Are you fine with the proposed code? > > > > > > > Output formats need to be nailed down. The output of iproute2 commands is > > almost > > like an ABI. Users build scripts to parse it (whether that is a great idea > > or not > > is debateable, it mostly shows the weakness in programatic API's). > > Therefore fully > > changing output formats in later revisions is likely to get users upset. > > It would be nice to see an example of what the completed command > should output to make judgements on the format.. Going bit by bit > doesn't really give a full picture, IHO.
Bit by bit expansion allow easily control of what is needed. Mostly, those full examples have nothing close to real use case. > > Jason
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