On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:34:29 +0200 Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > In order to not confuse reader, write help messages into stderr. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> This does make devlink consistent with other parts of iproute2. But the most common coding standards, back to Unix, and GNU are that help messages should go to stdout so that: $ ip -h | more would work as expected. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8813/should-the-usage-message-go-to-stderr-or-stdout/8815 https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html
