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Message-ID: <20130816165213.68c2ea6c@martins.ozlabs.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:52:13 +1000
From: Martin Schwenke <martin@...tin.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip monitor: Enable prefix labels when monitoring more
than 1 object
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:40:47 -0700, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:05:27 +1000
> Martin Schwenke <martin@...tin.net> wrote:
>
> > Prefix labelling is currently only activated when monitoring "all"
> > objects. However, the output can still be confusing when monitoring
> > more than 1 object, so enable prefix labels in this case.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@...tin.net>
>
> I understand where you are coming from, but changing the output format
> might break people with scripts doing parsing the current format.
>
> Since there is already a flag to ip monitor to put on prefix labels,
> why not just use that if you need to?
Sorry, I can't see that option in either the usage message or in the
code. In the current code the only place I can see prefix_banner
being set is in the "all" case. I think "prefix" is about monitoring
IPv6 prefixes or similar.
Perhaps I could add a "label" option instead?
> This seems like a change likely to upset more people than it pleases.
Yeah, perhaps... :-(
peace & happiness,
martin
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