From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: PATCH WAS( Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2 v2.6.25 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:22:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4808AEBF.7040504@trash.net> References: <20080417103858.0075236b@extreme> <1208464539.15888.22.camel@localhost> <20080417134656.761748d4@extreme> <1208465951.15888.33.camel@localhost> <20080417140837.1e92b449@extreme> <1208467480.15888.50.camel@localhost> <1208522727.4422.79.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: hadi@cyberus.ca Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:60563 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751066AbYDROXA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:23:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1208522727.4422.79.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: jamal wrote > BTW, speaking of scripts and command line output changes (and to > emphasize my earlier comments): > A lot of people managing router configuration out there in the wild do > write parsers that depend on how output looks like (typically a > send/expect interaction)[1]. They invest time in writting such scripts. > In an old job at one point, a customer was adamant they wouldnt buy our > new super-dupper device merely because we changed the command output by > iirc removing a ":" in one of them. Theyd have to rewrite things and go > through whole regression testing. Yes, that sucks (ran into the same problem with iproute in a previous job). I added the ENV dump format to libnl a couple of years ago (NAME=val), should be easy to add a set of simple tools to get the information and export it in the environment.