netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 iproute] bridge: dump mcast querier state

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Message-ID: <20241030174140.4ef77885@hermes.local>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:41:40 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Fabian Pfitzner <f.pfitzner@...gutronix.de>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, entwicklung@...gutronix.de, dsahern@...il.com,
 roopa@...dia.com, razor@...ckwall.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 iproute] bridge: dump mcast querier state

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:21:36 +0100
Fabian Pfitzner <f.pfitzner@...gutronix.de> wrote:

> Kernel support for dumping the multicast querier state was added in this
> commit [1]. As some people might be interested to get this information
> from userspace, this commit implements the necessary changes to show it
> via
> 
> ip -d link show [dev]
> 
> The querier state shows the following information for IPv4 and IPv6
> respectively:
> 
> 1) The ip address of the current querier in the network. This could be
>    ourselves or an external querier.
> 2) The port on which the querier was seen
> 3) Querier timeout in seconds
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c7fa1d9b1fb179375e889ff076a1566ecc997bfc
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Pfitzner <f.pfitzner@...gutronix.de>

Use print_color_string for printing addresses; to be consistent with other code