[brussels-dev] update: 'dladm show-ether' output

[Peter Memishian]

 > > 	* Not sure what the column name "param" means (though I can see
 > > 	  what it does from context).
 > 
 > yeah, I couldn't think of a better column name for that.. any
 > suggestions? 

Not anything really good -- "context"?  "type"?  "mode"?

 > > 	* I'm somewhat uncomfortable with having "-x" vary the set of
 > > 	  fields shown (rem_fault above).  It seems more predictable
 > > 	  to have that controlled by "-o" (e.g., "-x -o all" to get what's
 > > 	  shown above -- and again, I'm OK with "-v" being a synonym for
 > > 	  "-o all".)
 > 
 > There are two schools of thought on this... I think some folks
 > like Garrett were thrown off by the 2 dimensions (-x vs -o)
 > in the "long" output. 
 > 
 > I myself have no personal preferences, and it does seem simpler
 > to print everything with 1 flag (-x) instead  of 2, since 
 > we are choosing to print exactly 1 additional field.

But that means that whenever one uses -x, one has to widen her terminal
past 80 columns, or the output becomes hard to read.  Also, IIRC, keeping
-x and -v separate matches what's being proposed for show-aggr post-UV.

 > In general, "-o" was the next thing I wanted to attack, as a piece
 > of 6515065 that's been needing attention for a while, for many
 > sub-commands. 

Great :-)

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meem