From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCA7C282CD for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8E320881 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="Yg5xqmwA" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730087AbfA3Ev2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:51:28 -0500 Received: from mail-pl1-f196.google.com ([209.85.214.196]:42393 "EHLO mail-pl1-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728101AbfA3Ev2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:51:28 -0500 Received: by mail-pl1-f196.google.com with SMTP id y1so10481482plp.9 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:51:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+2P5wKGoFPSagO7ONTpKS2DD3jy6eYnnpSzHbim71vk=; b=Yg5xqmwA99sxJRHfkLjEqg3V0fkUH1DgcKsHvmti5hi3TusNGyMBA+vK0egHyQGy9f kVSqc9Ewlly61+//8zFfwM2cLFZwRsDrvBaDxjDr7Sl+yk+zf+4Y0EH8C5MMLaoia+oB BoeirbsCGYg0oeOH2rLquCDJ0HdZRbl8oHduhqyffsswErOfoBEzxg6z4Vc6N9IwTQA6 39iAFVziXlUG+9AOHO3qbLLuet1JsjvXqP2c0ey+Njd0LePmOiqgrGQW/7/+DcUOvQhm TgX+1+avp7luKNVbafZqjMx6NXS0Hu0me4nqzpDktTFBGqq6Hbl+vnO2uiidpNNWUsEJ yqcw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+2P5wKGoFPSagO7ONTpKS2DD3jy6eYnnpSzHbim71vk=; b=MZ1M5MG9hH6eTVlFs/MTBn5UgceagjPYDPcZd8BLZYFi5wR7S6TQ2ry7AQ9P62e6uL RnV7hTUJ93eFgiM5UmN8/yHHYmHLrhaU2ak+NNVYuyvJyQ5PGCuECMMkzGgnjTpmHIPX 9nQCOUn6J0WY08v7hAXU5lxhf8m0BXvyHlty3ndR4iAoQuriiJsa1WSWMcqvewYpSCOA MoHsCNnZBAadFW3oGXELiEeGGPSgItlvBOnVmH4BnmIv1xi6Z9O2ix2W3h71CT/Fz+u+ i2hQcrVfa8lritMFwSpAx9FfUZWhPtdB9TmfOkUazv9Ja3FYZ3G0CPVnWnfVaR7nw58O 61vA== X-Gm-Message-State: AJcUukd4Me7eYIZT50SOi5ed5CAOX3G3KO0yOR0fqzi/Ww0tT+ALqWHq zsrJ8yXVr5JCXMZA7VsAPeV7QZgq X-Google-Smtp-Source: ALg8bN4MVsD/yCrDTaOlVGoXKnZhHs5mzCBTQ3LfFTou7pOnBS/J9ZexzV0nqyMBtlalnMh6np5qpw== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:a40f:: with SMTP id p15mr29576931plq.286.1548823887059; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2601:282:800:fd80:edc4:6e9f:eba1:f2a3? ([2601:282:800:fd80:edc4:6e9f:eba1:f2a3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id r80sm555554pfa.111.2019.01.29.20.51.25 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:51:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Introduce ip-brctl shell script To: Stefano Brivio Cc: Phil Sutter , Eric Garver , Tomas Dolezal , Stephen Hemminger , Lennert Buytenhek , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: From: David Ahern Message-ID: <8b930eb8-6ffe-d03f-02a3-12a332edbba3@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:51:24 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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 > Acked-by: Phil Sutter > --- > 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.