From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/6] Introduce devlink interface and first drivers to use it Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:29:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20160205152936.63863d27@redhat.com> References: <1454496482-13961-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <20160203143133.1b70bcb5@redhat.com> <20160203133356.GA2219@nanopsycho.orion> <56B219FA.7080208@iogearbox.net> <9B0331B6EBBD0E4684FBFAEDA55776F92CB6D2ED@HASMSX110.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Borkmann , Jiri Pirko , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "idosch@mellanox.com" , "eladr@mellanox.com" , "yotamg@mellanox.com" , "ogerlitz@mellanox.com" , "yishaih@mellanox.com" , "dledford@redhat.com" , "Hefty, Sean" , "hal.rosenstock@gmail.com" , "eugenia@mellanox.com" , "roopa@cumulusnetworks.com" , "nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com" , "hadarh@mellanox.com" , "jhs@mojatatu.com" , "john.fastabend@gmail.com" , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44692 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750850AbcBEO3q (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:29:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9B0331B6EBBD0E4684FBFAEDA55776F92CB6D2ED@HASMSX110.ger.corp.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 19:01:55 +0000 "Rosen, Rami" wrote: > Hi, > > >Btw, if you add this tool into iproute2 (which would be preferred), >then > >probably dl should be ok (and easier retrievable in that relation). > > +1. > > This tool, which uses netlink messages, seems a natural candidate for iproute2. > > And also apart from "ip", we have also another short command in > iproute2, namely "tc", which is yet another justification for using > the short form with "dl". I agree that integration into iproute2 is a good idea. I strongly disagree on introducing such a short command name. Today we live in a world where you google for usage examples... the ip and tc commands origin for another time, and IMHO their short names have hurt them not getting broad usage. Especially it have been difficult to get people to really adopt "ip", which is also worst search term in the Internet today... -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer