netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2 1/3] bridge: reorder cmd line arg parsing to let "-c" detected as "color" option

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Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:11:12 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Gokul Sivakumar <gokulkumar792@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2 1/3] bridge: reorder cmd line arg parsing
 to let "-c" detected as "color" option

On 8/14/21 12:47 PM, Gokul Sivakumar wrote:
> As per the man/man8/bridge.8 page, the shorthand cmd line arg "-c" can be
> used to colorize the bridge cmd output. But while parsing the args in while
> loop, matches() detects "-c" as "-compressedvlans" instead of "-color", so
> fix this by doing the check for "-color" option first before checking for
> "-compressedvlans".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gokul Sivakumar <gokulkumar792@...il.com>
> ---
>  bridge/bridge.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bridge/bridge.c b/bridge/bridge.c
> index f7bfe0b5..48b0e7f8 100644
> --- a/bridge/bridge.c
> +++ b/bridge/bridge.c
> @@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
>  			NEXT_ARG();
>  			if (netns_switch(argv[1]))
>  				exit(-1);
> +		} else if (matches_color(opt, &color)) {
>  		} else if (matches(opt, "-compressvlans") == 0) {
>  			++compress_vlans;
> -		} else if (matches_color(opt, &color)) {
>  		} else if (matches(opt, "-force") == 0) {
>  			++force;
>  		} else if (matches(opt, "-json") == 0) {
> 

Another example of why matches needs to be deprecated.

Re-assigned the set to Stephen for main tree.