From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/6] Introduce devlink interface and first drivers to use it Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:22:17 +0100 Message-ID: <56B35089.4000707@stressinduktion.org> References: <1454496482-13961-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <20160203143133.1b70bcb5@redhat.com> <20160203133356.GA2219@nanopsycho.orion> <56B219FA.7080208@iogearbox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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, sean.hefty@intel.com, hal.rosenstock@gmail.com, eugenia@mellanox.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com, hadarh@mellanox.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jbenc@redhat.com To: Daniel Borkmann , Jiri Pirko , Jesper Dangaard Brouer Return-path: Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:49001 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757673AbcBDNWW (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2016 08:22:22 -0500 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530A220D46 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 08:22:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <56B219FA.7080208@iogearbox.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03.02.2016 16:17, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > On 02/03/2016 02:33 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:31:33PM CET, brouer@redhat.com wrote: >>> On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:47:56 +0100 >>> Jiri Pirko wrote: >>>> From: Jiri Pirko > [...] >>>> It is available here: >>>> https://github.com/jpirko/devlink >>> >>> IHMO this very short command name "dl" is not an advantage. It is >>> simply too unspecific and short for a good Google search. E.g. when >>> searching for good examples for using "dl". I think "devlink" would be >>> better. If you like short commands do: alias dl="devlink" >> >> I was thinking about using "devlink". Decided to go with shortened >> version so this is in-line with "ip". But you have a point. > > Btw, if you add this tool into iproute2 (which would be preferred), then > probably dl should be ok (and easier retrievable in that relation). This doesn't seem to be too much related to networking? Why can't something like this be in sysfs? Bye, Hannes