netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] ip: add a new parameter -Numeric

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Date:   Mon, 20 May 2019 09:18:08 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] ip: add a new parameter -Numeric

On 5/20/19 1:56 AM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> When calles rtnl_dsfield_n2a(), we get the dsfield name from
> /etc/iproute2/rt_dsfield. But different distribution may have
> different names. So add a new parameter '-Numeric' to only show
> the dsfield number.
> 
> This parameter is only used for tos value at present. We could enable
> this for other fields if needed in the future.
> 

It does not make sense to add this flag just for 1 field.

3 years ago I started a patch to apply this across the board. never
finished it. see attached. The numeric variable should be moved to
lib/rt_names.c. It handles all of the conversions in that file - at
least as of May 2016.

View attachment "iproute-numeric.patch" of type "text/plain" (5363 bytes)