Re: new tool: blktool

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2004-08-15 at 22:36, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > 	$ hdparm -c1 /dev/hda
> > 		becomes
> > 	$ blktool /dev/hda pio-data 32-bit
>
>
> So you've replaced hdparm's weird but unixish command line with an
> even more demented non linuxish one that doesn't handle regexps for
> drive names ?
>
> Whatever happened to
>
> 	blktool /dev/hda --pio-data=32


Yep, it's more like ethtool(8) or cvs(1) in its syntax.  There is big 
difference in usability (for me anyway) between "command [options]..." 
and an unordered list of --args.  Especially as the list of commands 
grows longer.  It provides more structure.

Each command can have options, --foo-bar=baz if you like, I suppose.

	Jeff


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