From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH WAS( Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 v2.6.25
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:44:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428114448.GL20815@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480C7F68.7090105@trash.net>
* Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> 2008-04-21 13:50
> jamal wrote:
> >On Sat, 2008-19-04 at 18:45 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >
> >>I imagine something like this:
> >>
> >># nl-link-dump env eth0
> >>
> >>LINK_NAME=eth0
> >>LINK_IFINDEX=2
> >>LINK_LLADDR=.....
> >>LINK_OPERSTATE=...
> >>
> >>and so on. You could then do something like this:
> >>
> >>export $(nl-link-dump env eth0)
> >>
> >>and use $LINK_... in your scripts.
> >>
> >
> >Clever. That would certainly help in portability; i will take a closer
> >look on what you did for libnl and see how well it applies for iproute2.
>
> I just noticed the libnl example code already supports this:
>
> $ ./nl-link-dump env dev eth0
> LINK_NAME=eth0
> LINK_IFINDEX=2
> LINK_FAMILY=unspec
> LINK_TYPE=ether
> ...
>
> I wouldn't duplicate it for iproute, but rather complete the
> libnl support (I think some object types are still missing
> ENV dump format support) and tell people to use that for
> scripting.
The framework is there (dump objects via NL_DUMP_ENV) but not all
objects output all attributes yet. It's a low priority item for me
though but I'm happy to accept patches.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-17 17:38 [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 v2.6.25 Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-17 20:35 ` PATCH WAS( " jamal
2008-04-17 20:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-17 20:59 ` jamal
2008-04-17 21:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-17 21:24 ` jamal
2008-04-18 12:45 ` jamal
2008-04-18 14:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-19 0:08 ` jamal
2008-04-19 0:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-19 1:34 ` jamal
2008-04-19 16:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-20 11:48 ` jamal
2008-04-21 11:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-21 13:07 ` jamal
2008-04-21 13:39 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-21 14:21 ` jamal
2008-04-28 11:52 ` Thomas Graf
2008-04-28 11:44 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
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