netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] tools: bpftool: Add JSON output to bpftool

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Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:44:18 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] tools: bpftool: Add JSON output to bpftool

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:24:04AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Quentin says:
> 
> This series introduces support for JSON output to all bpftool commands. It
> adds option parsing, and several options are created:
> 
>   * -j, --json     Switch to JSON output.
>   * -p, --pretty   Switch to JSON and print it in a human-friendly fashion.
>   * -h, --help     Print generic help message.
>   * -V, --version  Print version number.
> 
> This code uses a "json_writer", which is a copy of the one written by
> Stephen Hemminger in iproute2.
> ---
> I don't know if there is an easy way to share the code for json_write
> without copying the file, so I am very open to suggestions on this matter.

I think copy-paste is fine in this case.
If we ever decide to remove it from here and move it into iproute2
this json.[hc] can be unified, but I think kernel/tools/bpf/ is
a better place since introspection interface is still evolving a lot
and bpftool is not networking specific. Like would be great if it
can show what programs attached to which cgroups, tracepoints, kprobes.

Overall looks like a nice set of improvements.

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>