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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Mathias Nyman <m.nyman@iki.fi>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, aleksi.aalto@iki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ip: Add color output option
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:26:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5531425E.1020206@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150417164402.GA7041@Alexeis-MBP.westell.com>

On 04/17/2015 06:44 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 04:02:02PM +0300, Mathias Nyman wrote:
>> It is hard to quickly find what you are looking for in the output of the ip
>> command. Color helps.
>>
>> This patch adds a '-c' flag to highlight these with individual colors:
>>    - interface name
>>    - ip addresse
>>    - mac addresse
>>    - up/down state
>
> idea looks good, but the patch doesn't apply at all, since it's
> whitespace damaged. Also there is no SOB.

You also might want to move the library bits into lib/ so that
not only ip but also other tools could use it in future. So -c
is neither taken in ip nor in tc or ss, that's good. ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-17 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-17 13:02 [PATCH net-next] ip: Add color output option Mathias Nyman
2015-04-17 16:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-17 17:26   ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2015-04-18 10:22     ` Mathias Nyman
2015-04-19  8:22       ` Daniel Borkmann

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