On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:51:42 +0200 Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 04:53:02PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > These patches remove the term slave from the iproute2 visible > > command line, documentation, and variable naming. > > > > This needs doing despite the fact it will cause cosmetic > > changes to visible outputs. > > AFAICS, your patches don't only change output of the command, they also > change command line parsing so that they break backward compatibility > and break existing scripts and tools. This is a very bad idea. > > If you really want to go through this exercise - and I don't agree with > the "needs doing" claim - you definitely should preserve existing > keywords as aliases. > > Michal Sure the old keywords could be silent aliases for new ones.
