On 1/18/19 10:00 AM, Stefano Brivio wrote: > This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement > of the standalone 'brctl' utility. > > It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils version 1.6, > has no dependencies other than a POSIX shell, and it's less than half > the binary size of brctl on x86_64. > > As many users (including myself) seem to find brctl usage vastly more > intuitive than ip-link, possibly due to habit, this might be a lightweight > approach to provide brctl syntax without the need to maintain bridge-utils > any longer. > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbri...@redhat.com> > Acked-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> > --- > man/man8/Makefile | 5 +- > man/man8/ip-brctl.8 | 187 +++++++++++++++ > misc/Makefile | 9 +- > misc/ip-brctl.in | 572 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 4 files changed, 770 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 man/man8/ip-brctl.8 > create mode 100755 misc/ip-brctl.in
I get your intent, but this seems more appropriate for you / Red Hat to carry than something we want to distribute as part of iproute2.
