Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Add "show" subcommand to "ip fou"

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:35:08 -0800

On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:19:22 -0700
Greg Greenway <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Nov 1, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:00:47 -0700
> > Greg Greenway <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >   
> >> +	if (tb[FOU_ATTR_AF]) {
> >> +		family = rta_getattr_u8(tb[FOU_ATTR_AF]);
> >> +		if (family == AF_INET)
> >> +			family_str = "AF_INET";
> >> +		else if (family == AF_INET6)
> >> +			family_str = "AF_INET6";
> >> +		else
> >> +			family_str = "unknown";
> >> +		fprintf(fp, "af %s ", family_str);  
> > 
> > The unwritten rule for ip commands is that the show function
> > must format the output with same command syntax as the other commands set/add/delete.
> > Since there is no "af AF_INET" option to ip fou, this breaks that convention.
> > Either ignore the address family, change the add command, or output with same
> > syntax (-6); preferably the latter.  
> 
> That makes sense.  Here's a corrected version.  It also avoids a trailing-space in the output.

Yes, your followup looks correct but since it didn't follow the mailing list
patch protocol it was not picked up and managed by patchwork.
 https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/832717/

You need to post the patch as new patch (ie not a followup) with the "v2" designation
in order to get it correctly picked up and managed by patchwork.