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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Felix Kaiser <felix.kaiser@fxkr.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip link/addr show: add empty line between interfaces
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 14:46:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150907144609.3ec9f4d0@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441537269-13899-1-git-send-email-felix.kaiser@fxkr.net>

On Sun,  6 Sep 2015 13:01:09 +0200, Felix Kaiser wrote:
> This improves the readability of the output.

Or makes the readability worse by requiring more scrolling, depending
on number of interfaces you have and your taste. Many users prefer the
current format.

Also, as sad as it is, there are scripts out there that parse ip output
and I have no doubts this would break them.

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-07 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-06 11:01 [PATCH] ip link/addr show: add empty line between interfaces Felix Kaiser
2015-09-07 12:46 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2015-09-07 15:38   ` Felix Kaiser
2015-09-07 15:54     ` Jiri Benc
2015-09-07 18:09       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-07 19:57         ` Felix Kaiser

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