Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] mptcp: monitor: also show iface name

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:22:20 -0800

On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:38:51 +0100
Matthieu Baerts <[email-masked]> wrote:

> >>> Please fix the whole function.    
> >>
> >> Doing that would likely break scripts parsing 'ip mptcp monitor' output,
> >> are you sure we should still change this output format?  
> > 
> > I doubt scripts are parsing this weird format. That is one more reason for JSON  
> 
> Not as weird as 'ss -i' format where there are even more scripts parsing
> that :)

Agreed ss is a RFM.
I did take a shot at doing JSON there (with some help from Claude), just haven't gotten back to it.