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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] ip: add a new parameter -Numeric
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 15:20:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f9f733e-9977-1994-fe47-3a0fb4160ad4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190521121311.GW18865@dhcp-12-139.nay.redhat.com>

On 5/21/19 6:13 AM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> BTW, for some pre-defined names in iproute2, like rtnl_rtprot_tab,
> nl_proto_tab. Should we also print the number directly or just keep
> using the human readable names?
> 
> I would like to keep them as this is defined in iproute and we can control
> them. But this may make people feel confused with the -Numeric parameter.
> So what do you think?

To me numeric means no number to string conversions, and the protocol is
passed as a number.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21 21:20 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
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 [this message]

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