netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2 03/11] lib: utils: Add print_on_off

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Message-ID: <87o8kihyy9.fsf@nvidia.com>
Date:   Sat, 31 Oct 2020 22:23:43 +0100
From:   Petr Machata <me@...chata.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, jiri@...dia.com, idosch@...dia.com,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2 03/11] lib: utils: Add print_on_off_bool()


David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> writes:

> On 10/30/20 6:29 AM, Petr Machata wrote:
>> diff --git a/lib/utils.c b/lib/utils.c
>> index 930877ae0f0d..8deec86ecbcd 100644
>> --- a/lib/utils.c
>> +++ b/lib/utils.c
>> @@ -1763,3 +1763,11 @@ int parse_on_off(const char *msg, const char *realval, int *p_err)
>>
>>  	return parse_one_of(msg, realval, values_on_off, ARRAY_SIZE(values_on_off), p_err);
>>  }
>> +
>> +void print_on_off_bool(FILE *fp, const char *flag, bool val)
>> +{
>> +	if (is_json_context())
>> +		print_bool(PRINT_JSON, flag, NULL, val);
>> +	else
>> +		fprintf(fp, "%s %s ", flag, val ? "on" : "off");
>> +}
>>
>
> I think print_on_off should be fine and aligns with parse_on_off once it
> returns a bool.

print_on_off() is already used in the RDMA tool, and actually outputs
"on" and "off", unlike this. So I chose this instead.

I could rename the RDMA one though -- it's used in two places, whereas
this is used in about two dozen instances across the codebase.