netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 7/9] dcb: Support -n to suppress translation to nice names

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Date:   Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:11:03 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Petr Machata <me@...chata.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 7/9] dcb: Support -n to suppress translation
 to nice names

On 12/23/20 11:25 AM, Petr Machata wrote:
> diff --git a/dcb/dcb.c b/dcb/dcb.c
> index a59b63ac9159..e6cda7337924 100644
> --- a/dcb/dcb.c
> +++ b/dcb/dcb.c
> @@ -467,7 +467,8 @@ static void dcb_help(void)
>  		"       dcb [ -f | --force ] { -b | --batch } filename [ -N | --Netns ] netnsname\n"
>  		"where  OBJECT := { buffer | ets | maxrate | pfc }\n"
>  		"       OPTIONS := [ -V | --Version | -i | --iec | -j | --json\n"
> -		"                  | -p | --pretty | -s | --statistics | -v | --verbose]\n");
> +		"                  | -n | --no-nice-names | -p | --pretty\n"

iproute2 commands really should have a consistent user interface.
Unfortunately -N and -n are inconsistent with the newer commands like
devlink. dcb has not been released yet so time to fix this.

devlink is the only one using the horribly named 'no-nice-names', and we
should avoid propagating that to dcb. At a minimum it should be
'numeric' which is consistent with the others.

My preference is also to have dcb follow ip and tc (vs ss) with '-n' to
mean -netns and -N' to mean numeric.