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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, Eric Garver <egarver@redhat.com>,
	Tomas Dolezal <todoleza@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Introduce ip-brctl shell script
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:51:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b930eb8-6ffe-d03f-02a3-12a332edbba3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed6b04eab48a70d6416a6b021f04f9901f7e9f01.1547830302.git.sbrivio@redhat.com>

On 1/18/19 10:00 AM, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement
> of the standalone 'brctl' utility.
> 
> It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils version 1.6,
> has no dependencies other than a POSIX shell, and it's less than half
> the binary size of brctl on x86_64.
> 
> As many users (including myself) seem to find brctl usage vastly more
> intuitive than ip-link, possibly due to habit, this might be a lightweight
> approach to provide brctl syntax without the need to maintain bridge-utils
> any longer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
> ---
>  man/man8/Makefile   |   5 +-
>  man/man8/ip-brctl.8 | 187 +++++++++++++++
>  misc/Makefile       |   9 +-
>  misc/ip-brctl.in    | 572 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 770 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 man/man8/ip-brctl.8
>  create mode 100755 misc/ip-brctl.in

I get your intent, but this seems more appropriate for you / Red Hat to
carry than something we want to distribute as part of iproute2.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-30  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-18 17:00 [PATCH iproute2-next] Introduce ip-brctl shell script Stefano Brivio
2019-01-23 15:09 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2019-01-23 16:33   ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-01-25 10:05     ` Stefano Brivio
2019-01-28  5:08       ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-01-28  7:57         ` Stefano Brivio
2019-01-30 22:30           ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-01-31 12:46             ` Stefano Brivio
2019-01-31 16:28               ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-02-05 22:50                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-06 10:55                   ` Stefano Brivio
2019-01-25 10:04   ` Stefano Brivio
2019-01-30  4:51 ` David Ahern [this message]
2019-01-30 10:55   ` Stefano Brivio
2019-01-31  5:12     ` David Ahern
2019-01-31 12:46       ` Stefano Brivio
2019-01-31 12:49 ` Stefano Brivio

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