netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] ip: add a new parameter -Numeric
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 12:24:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190520102426.GM4851@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190520075648.15882-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 03:56:48PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> When calles rtnl_dsfield_n2a(), we get the dsfield name from
> /etc/iproute2/rt_dsfield. But different distribution may have
> different names. So add a new parameter '-Numeric' to only show
> the dsfield number.
> 
> This parameter is only used for tos value at present. We could enable
> this for other fields if needed in the future.

Rationale is to ensure expected output irrespective of host
configuration, especially in test scripts. Concrete example motivating
this patch was net/fib_rule_tests.sh in kernel self-tests.

> Suggested-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

Thanks for doing this, Hangbin!

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-20 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-20  7:56 [PATCH iproute2 net-next] ip: add a new parameter -Numeric Hangbin Liu
2019-05-20 10:24 ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2019-05-20 15:18 ` David Ahern
2019-05-20 17:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-21 12:13     ` Hangbin Liu
2019-05-21 21:20       ` David Ahern

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20190520102426.GM4851@orbyte.nwl.cc \
    --to=phil@nwl.cc \
    --cc=dsahern@gmail.com \
    --cc=liuhangbin@gmail.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=stephen@networkplumber.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).