Hi Roopa, On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:33:27 -0800 Roopa Prabhu <ro...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:09 AM Nikolay Aleksandrov > <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > IMO the effort should be towards improving iproute2 to be > > easier to use and more intuitive. We should be pushing people to > > use the new tools instead of trying to find workarounds to keep the > > old tools alive. I do like to idea of deprecating bridge-utils, but > > I think it should be done via improving ip/bridge enough to be > > pleasant to use. We will have to maintain this compatibility layer > > forever if it gets accepted and we'll never get rid of brctl this > > way. > > +1, we should move people away from brtcl. there is enough confusion > among users looking at bridge attributes., > > ip -d link show > bridge -d link show > brctl Why is this confusing? One can simply pick the most appropriate tool. > Adding a 4th one to the list is not going to ease the confusion. Why do you say I'm adding a fourth (I guess) tool? I'm replacing the third one. > We should try to make the 'ip -d link show and bridge -d link show' > outputs better. Any suggestions there from people will be useful. To be honest, I don't see any problem with them -- they just do different things. -- Stefano
