netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Introduce ip-brctl shell script

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Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:51:24 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
Cc:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>, Eric Garver <egarver@...hat.com>,
        Tomas Dolezal <todoleza@...hat.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@....org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Introduce ip-brctl shell script

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 <sbrivio@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
> ---
>  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.