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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] stats output
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:55:20 -0800
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:22:35 +0100
Alexis Vachette <avachette@deezer.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Thanks for your kind reply.
> 
> It's sad to hear that, I am aware of your concern too.
> 
> But it's not the best behavior for a network engineer.
> 
> Is it possible to add a new option or everything is stone graved ?

You can add new options at will as long as they don't conflict with existing
usage (and you update the man page). JSON and colorized output were added
in the last years.

Note: the iproute options are definitely a hodge-podge collection, the code doesn't
follow the typical Linux style of using getopt and getopt_long, and has a bit of
network OS model as well.

What are you thinking of.