Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next v4 0/5] bridge: json support for fdb and vlan show

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:10:47 -0700

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:53:44 +0200
Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 03:45:50PM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
> >From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
> >
> >This patch series adds json support for a few bridge show commands.
> >We plan to follow up with json support for additional commands soon.  
> 
> I'm just curious, what is you use case for this? Apps can use rtnetlink
> socket directly.

Try using netlink in perl or python, it is quite difficult.