Comment 3 for bug 925145

Hi Scott,

my personal opinion is that the 'ip route' and 'ip addr' output won't be ever significantly changed because now most tools in every distribution use them instead of net-tools.
The change in ifconfig output that Garrett mentioned is another case: that happened in upstream repo almost 9 years ago and the reson probably was to make the output of ifconfig similar to the output of ifconfig on Solaris and *BSD.

The patch is just a suggestion. It's of course on you how you implement it.
Please also see the original bug report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786488

Thanks