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From: Petr Machata <me@pmachata•org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
Cc: Petr Machata <me@pmachata•org>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, dsahern@gmail•com, Po.Liu@nxp•com,
	toke@toke•dk, dave.taht@gmail•com, edumazet@google•com,
	tahiliani@nitk•edu.in, vtlam@google•com, leon@kernel•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 2/6] lib: Move print_rate() from tc here; modernize
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:56:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7p5nnjo.fsf@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201130163547.23a06e79@hermes.local>


Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org> writes:

>> +int print_color_rate(bool use_iec, enum output_type t, enum color_attr color,
>> +		     const char *key, const char *fmt, unsigned long long rate);
>> +
>> +static inline int print_rate(bool use_iec, enum output_type t,
>> +			     const char *key, const char *fmt,
>> +			     unsigned long long rate)
>> +{
>> +	return print_color_rate(use_iec, t, COLOR_NONE, key, fmt, rate);
>> +}
>> +
>
> Overall this looks good, but is there any case where color output
> makes sense for this field? If not then why do all the color wrappers.

All the print_X functions in json_print comes with a print_color_X
flavor as well, even the ones where all clients just use the plain
output. (Notably the recently added on_off. Colors were even one of the
arguments in favor of putting that one to json_print, despite nobody
actually using them for on/off.)

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 22:59 [PATCH iproute2-next 0/6] Move rate and size parsing and output to lib Petr Machata
2020-11-30 22:59 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 1/6] Move the use_iec declaration to the tools Petr Machata
2020-11-30 22:59 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 2/6] lib: Move print_rate() from tc here; modernize Petr Machata
2020-12-01  0:35   ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-12-01 22:56     ` Petr Machata [this message]
2020-11-30 22:59 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 3/6] lib: Move sprint_size() from tc here, add print_size() Petr Machata
2020-12-01  0:39   ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-12-01 22:41     ` Petr Machata
2020-12-02  4:07       ` David Ahern
2020-11-30 22:59 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 4/6] lib: Move get_rate(), get_rate64() from tc here Petr Machata
2020-11-30 22:59 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 5/6] lib: Move get_size() " Petr Machata
2020-11-30 22:59 ` [PATCH iproute2-next 6/6] lib: print_rate(): Fix formatting small rates in IEC mode Petr Machata

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