On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 06:16:21PM -0600, Kevin Locke wrote: > To aid users constructing a valid ethtool invocation, create a > [bash-completion] script to provide [programmable completion] of ethtool > arguments. It supports all current command options. > > The script is named shell-completion/bash/ethtool, similar to [kmod], > and installed to `pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion` > (with $prefix replaced by --prefix of ./configure and fallback to > $datadir/bash-completion/completions) by default. This can be disabled > by passing --without-bash-completion-dir or changed by passing > --with-bash-completion-dir=$anypath to ./configure. It requires > pkg-config 0.18 or later to be installed on the build system which runs > aclocal (for the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG m4 macro). > > To install the script manually for the current user, copy or link > shell-completion/bash to $BASH_COMPLETION_USER_DIR/completions > (default $XDG_DATA_HOME/bash-completion/completions > (default ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions)). > To install system-wide, copy shell-completion/bash to completionsdir > from pkg-config (default /usr/share/bash-completion/completions) > discussed above. Restarting bash may be necessary to pick up changes to > the script (if a previous version had already been loaded). > > Note: In [scop/bash-completion#289] the bash-completion maintainer > suggested shipping this completion with ethtool rather than > bash-completion, due to assumptions about the ethtool command-line > format made by the script. That pull request also contains an extensive > test suite in Python which is not included in this commit, but may be > ported to a format suitable for inclusion if there is sufficient > interest and agreement about how to achieve that. > > [bash-completion]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion > [programmable completion]: > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Programmable-Completion.html > [kmod]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/ > [scop/bash-completion#289]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/pull/289 > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Locke <ke...@kevinlocke.name> > Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeb...@intel.com> > --- > > Changes in v3: > * Apply --prefix to completionsdir for `make distcheck` and expectations. > * Stop using PKG_CHECK_MODULES due to unnecessary _CFLAGS/LIBS vars. > Use PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG then call $PKG_CONFIG directly. > > Changes in v2: > * Describe manual install and ./configure arguments in commit message.
LGTM -- queued for next release. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linvi...@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
