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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] fib_trie: improve output format for /proc/net/fib_trie
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:28:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212182823.6f8a3a12.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080213005122.727447010@vyatta.com>

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:50:44 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:

> Make output format prettier (more tree like).
> 
>    <local>:
>    --- 0.0.0.0/0
>      |--- 10.111.111.0/24
>      |  +-- 10.111.111.0/32 link broadcast
>      |  |--- 10.111.111.254/31
>      |  |  +-- 10.111.111.254/32 host local
>      |  |  +-- 10.111.111.255/32 link broadcast
>      |--- 127.0.0.0/8
>      |  |--- 127.0.0.0/31
>      |  |  +-- 127.0.0.0/32 link broadcast
>      |  |  +-- 127.0.0.0/8 host local
>      |  |  +-- 127.0.0.1/32 host local
>      |  +-- 127.255.255.255/32 link broadcast
>      |--- 192.168.1.0/24
>      |  |--- 192.168.1.0/28
>      |  |  +-- 192.168.1.0/32 link broadcast
>      |  |  +-- 192.168.1.9/32 host local
>      |  +-- 192.168.1.255/32 link broadcast
>    <main>:
>    --- 0.0.0.0/0
>      |--- 0.0.0.0/4
>      |  +-- 0.0.0.0/0 universe unicast
>      |  +-- 10.111.111.0/24 link unicast
>      +-- 169.254.0.0/16 link unicast
>      +-- 192.168.1.0/24 link unicast

isn't that a non-back-compatible kernel ABI change?  It might
break pre-existing parsers?

aside: how lame are we to put pretty-printers in the kernel?
English-only ones, at that?  Root cause: kernel developers still
don't have a sufficiently easy way of shipping userspace tools.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13  0:50 [PATCH 0/4] fib_trie related patches for 2.6.25 Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  0:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] rcu_assign_pointer: null check fix Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  0:50   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  1:27   ` David Miller
2008-02-13  8:07   ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-02-13  0:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] fib_trie: improve output format for /proc/net/fib_trie Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  0:50   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  2:28   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-13  3:23     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  0:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] fib_trie: print statistics for multiple tables Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  2:35   ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-13 22:26     ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-02-13  0:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] hlist_for_each_entry_continue simplification Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-13  1:26   ` David Miller

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