Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:19:23PM CET, zaboj.camp...@post.cz wrote: >On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 10:55 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> >> Another alternative format would be to make -tree a output modifier and >> ident (like ps tree options). >> >> $ ip -t link >> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode >> DEFAULT group default qlen 1 >> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 >> 8: bond0 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode >> DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 >> link/ether 52:54:00:66:24:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> 2: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master bond0 >> state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 >> link/ether 52:54:00:66:24:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > >OK, it looks better because the information is complete. > >I looked at several tree printing utilities and I like >the lsblk format. But tabular format does not fit the ip-show >well. I will try to indent the current ip-show output may be >with fancy lines.
I don't really think that the output you provide has any value. As JiriB wrote, it is really problematic to draw relationships between devices. Let's take OVS as a very non-trivial example. Your patch aims to handle only the very basic ones.
