netdev - Re: iproute2: bash completion function for tc

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:13:46 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:	Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...nd.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...atatu.com>,
	Vincent Jardin <vincent.jardin@...nd.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: bash completion function for tc

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:19:26 -0700
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:28:17AM +0200, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> > Hi Jamal, Stephen,
> > 
> > I searched for a function providing auto-completion for `tc` utility in
> > bash, but I found none. So I have created one, and I would like share it
> > with the community. It is available here:
> > https://github.com/6WIND/tc_bash-completion/blob/master/tc
> > I would like to make it easily available to tc users, so here is a
> > twofold request:
> > 
> > * I do not know where to submit the code. Should I submit here on netdev
> > for inclusion in iproute2 package, or rather to the bash-completion
> > repository on GitHub? I feel like it would receive better feedback and
> > updates if pushed to iproute2. Could you please provide some advice here?
> > * The completion for `tc` seems to work well; I have tested it with many
> > commands, but I am no tc expert, and there are probably some cases where
> > the completion fails to propose the correct choices. I would be really
> > interested in any feedback/bug reports that you, or anyone on this list
> > who uses tc, could provide.
> 
> that looks very interesting.
> I think making it a part of iproute2 is a good thing.
> How about installing it into /etc/iproute2/ ?
> Stephen, any comments?
> 

I am ok with keeping it in the repository.
But it would need to be installed in the standard bash directory,
is that distro dependent?