Re: [PATCH iproute2 3/5] rdma: Add device capability parsing

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:11:12AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 03:18:59PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:46:15 +0300
> > Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:37:35AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 08:33:01PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > My initial plan was to put all parsers under their respective names, in
> > > > > the similar way as I did for caps: $ rdma dev show mlx5_4 caps
> > > >
> > > > I think you should have a useful summary display similar to 'ip a' and
> > > > other commands.
> > > >
> > > > guid(s), subnet prefix or default gid for IB, lid/lmc, link state,
> > > > speed, mtu, pkeys protocol(s)
> > >
> > > It will, but before I would like to see this tool be a part of
> > > iproute2, so other people will be able to extend it in addition
> > > to me.
> > >
> > > Are you fine with the proposed code?
> > >
> >
> > Output formats need to be nailed down. The output of iproute2 commands is almost
> > like an ABI. Users build scripts to parse it (whether that is a great idea or not
> > is debateable, it mostly shows the weakness in programatic API's). Therefore fully
> > changing output formats in later revisions is likely to get users upset.
>
> It would be nice to see an example of what the completed command
> should output to make judgements on the format.. Going bit by bit
> doesn't really give a full picture, IHO.

Bit by bit expansion allow easily control of what is needed. Mostly,
those full examples have nothing close to real use case.

>
> Jason

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