Subject: Re: [iproute2 net-next PATCH] ip: add a new parameter -Numeric

From: Roman Mashak <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:01:20 -0400

Hangbin Liu <[email-masked]> writes:

> Add a new parameter '-Numeric' to show the number of protocol, scope,
> dsfield, etc directly instead of converting it to human readable name.
> Do the same on tc and ss.
>
> This patch is based on David Ahern's previous patch.
>

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It would be good idea to specify the numerical format, e.g. hex or dec,
very often hex is more conveninet representation (for example, when
skbmark is encoded of IP address or such).

Could you think of extending it '-Numeric' to have an optional argument
hex, and use decimal as default.