On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 09:06:58 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > Does that mean "no" or "you need to be more convincing"? :) > > > > > > JSON output is not changed. I don't think we care about screen > > > scrapers. If we cared about people how interpret values based > > > on their position in the output we would break that with every > > > release, no? > > > > In this case you are not adding or inserting a new column, you are > > changing the meaning of an existing column. > > > > It's an 'error' stat so probably not as sensitive. I do not have a > > strong religion on it since it seems to be making the error stat more up > > to date.
I hope this change would encourage vendors to use the standard stats. Because.. > Is there any way to see the old error column at all? I had no idea how to even show error stats. I read the code multiple times, only when I sat down to actually implement displaying did I realize that -s -s (repeat the option) shows all the stats.
