On 1/18/19 10:00 AM, Stefano Brivio wrote:

This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement
of the standalone 'brctl' utility.

It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils version 1.6,
has no dependencies other than a POSIX shell, and it's less than half
the binary size of brctl on x86_64.

As many users (including myself) seem to find brctl usage vastly more
intuitive than ip-link, possibly due to habit, this might be a lightweight
approach to provide brctl syntax without the need to maintain bridge-utils
any longer.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <redacted>
Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
---
 man/man8/Makefile   |   5 +-
 man/man8/ip-brctl.8 | 187 +++++++++++++++
 misc/Makefile       |   9 +-
 misc/ip-brctl.in    | 572 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 770 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 man/man8/ip-brctl.8
 create mode 100755 misc/ip-brctl.in

I get your intent, but this seems more appropriate for you / Red Hat to
carry than something we want to distribute as part of iproute2.