Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:56:54PM CEST, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: >On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 09:19:21 +0200 >Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: > >> Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 06:46:59PM CEST, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: >> >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. >> >> The thing is I wanted to make stdout only for json. Putting non-json >> help out there does not look correct to me. Is it? >> > >I applied both of these patches, just wanted to mention that iproute2 is not >following the GNU convention. At this point, it really doesn't matter, there >are arguments to be made for both behaviors.
Allright. Thanks.