Re: Rescan for ahcisata ?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, David Young wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 06:45:34AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > # drvctl -p atabus0 interface-attributes
> > Array:
>
> If printing 'Array:' is intentional, be sure to suppress it when the
> flag -n is given.  (Looks like I didn't update the manual page, oops.)

Yeah - the man page doesn't even indicate that -n is valid with -p.  I 
will change -n to

        Suppress the first column in -l output.  Suppress non-XML
        headers in -p output.


> I think that filtering the propery list by keys should be left to some
> other tool, e.g., one of the xmltools.  In the xmlgrep syntax, the
> command would be:
>
>       drvctl -p atabus0 | xmlgrep '//interface-attributes'

Certainly makes more sense than embedding this inside drvctl!  But since 
we don't have xmlgrep yet, I guess we need to keep the rudimentary 
parser that we have.

> BTW, I am looking for a volunteer to work on xmltools.  Anyone?

I wish I had time enough to dedicate to it.



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