Every tool in the iproute2 package have one or more function to show
an help message to the user. Some of these functions print the help
line by line with a series of printf call, e.g. ip/xfrm_state.c does
60 fprintf calls.
If we group all the calls to a single one and just concatenate strings,
we save a lot of libc calls and thus object size. The size difference
of the compiled binaries calculated with bloat-o-meter is:
ip/ip:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 5/15 up/down: 103/-4796 (-4693)
Total: Before=672591, After=667898, chg -0.70%
ip/rtmon:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-54 (-54)
Total: Before=48879, After=48825, chg -0.11%
tc/tc:
add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 31/10 up/down: 882/-6133 (-5251)
Total: Before=351912, After=346661, chg -1.49%
bridge/bridge:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-459 (-459)
Total: Before=70502, After=70043, chg -0.65%
misc/lnstat:
add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 48/-486 (-438)
Total: Before=9960, After=9522, chg -4.40%
tipc/tipc:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 18/-62 (-44)
Total: Before=79182, After=79138, chg -0.06%
While at it, indent some strings which were starting at column 0,
and use tabs where possible, to have a consistent style across helps.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
A new HSR version was added in 4.7 that can be enabled
via iproute2. Per default the old version is selected,
however, with "ip link add [..] type hsr [..] version 1"
the newer version can be enabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Heise <peter.heise@airbus.com>
Allow to print particular link type usage by:
ip link help [TYPE]
Currently to print usage for some link type it is needed
to use the following way:
ip link { add | del | set } type TYPE help
Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Matteo Croce
Julien Fortin
Ralf Baechle
Peter Heise
vadimk
Arvid Brodin