Stephen

On 16/10/13 17:24, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

>> As Andreas (the Debian maintainer) suggested, a simple patch would be to
>> remove the two lines at
>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git/tree/ip/ipaddress.c#n1179
> 
> Changing the output format is equivalent to change the API for applications
> that screen scrape this. I think the choice was intentional by the original
> authors.

I am not sure I follow what you mean here. There was an incompatible
(and undocumented) "API" change not long ago, that in fact broke an
application I developed. It also happens that the change makes the
output/API inconsistent. What I am asking is to revert to the old behaviour.


-- 
Martín Ferrari

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