netdev - [PATCH ethtool-next 3/5] separate FLAGS out in -h

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Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:52:57 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     mkubecek@...e.cz
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH ethtool-next 3/5] separate FLAGS out in -h

Help output is quite crowded already with every command
being prefixed by --debug and --json options, and we're
about to add a third one.

Add an indirection.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
---
 ethtool.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ethtool.c b/ethtool.c
index 23ecfcfd069c..ae5310e9e306 100644
--- a/ethtool.c
+++ b/ethtool.c
@@ -5947,10 +5947,10 @@ static int show_usage(struct cmd_context *ctx __maybe_unused)
 	fprintf(stdout, PACKAGE " version " VERSION "\n");
 	fprintf(stdout,
 		"Usage:\n"
-		"        ethtool [ --debug MASK ][ --json ] DEVNAME\t"
+		"        ethtool [ FLAGS ] DEVNAME\t"
 		"Display standard information about device\n");
 	for (i = 0; args[i].opts; i++) {
-		fputs("        ethtool [ --debug MASK ][ --json ] ", stdout);
+		fputs("        ethtool [ FLAGS ] ", stdout);
 		fprintf(stdout, "%s %s\t%s\n",
 			args[i].opts,
 			args[i].no_dev ? "\t" : "DEVNAME",
@@ -5959,7 +5959,10 @@ static int show_usage(struct cmd_context *ctx __maybe_unused)
 			fputs(args[i].xhelp, stdout);
 	}
 	nl_monitor_usage();
-	fprintf(stdout, "Not all options support JSON output\n");
+	fprintf(stdout, "\n");
+	fprintf(stdout, "FLAGS:\n");
+	fprintf(stdout, "	--debug MASK	turn on debugging messages\n");
+	fprintf(stdout, "	--json		enable JSON output format (not supported by all commands)\n");
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.26.2