netdev - Re: [PATCH] iproute2: show network device dependency tree

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Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:19:23 +0000
From:   Zaboj Campula <zaboj.campula@...t.cz>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: show network device dependency tree

On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 10:55 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Another alternative format would be to make -tree a output modifier and ident (like ps tree options).
> 
> $ ip -t link
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 8: bond0 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 52:54:00:66:24:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 
>     2: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master bond0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>         link/ether 52:54:00:66:24:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

OK, it looks better because the information is complete.

I looked at several tree printing utilities and I like
the lsblk format. But tabular format does not fit the ip-show
well. I will try to indent the current ip-show output may be
with fancy lines.