[brussels-dev] Displaying MII props in dladm

[Darren Reed]

Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote:
> ...
> At some point, one starts to wonder  if we are trying to get useful
> information across, or trying to conform to some set of output
> formatting rules, because the two objectives are starting to get at
> odds with each other :-(
>
> I personally feel that we should allow the machine-parseable output to
> be just that, and not impose constraints on the human parseable version. 
> ...

I agree with this 100%.

Of course it is nice when you can achieve something that is both human 
readable
and at the same time resembles what you want to feed into scripts, etc, 
but neither
should be designed nor constrained by what the other needs to achieve so 
long as
both are separate.

Darren