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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:47:11 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:52:21 +0300
Ivan Dyukov <i.dyukov@samsung.com> wrote:

> Link status structure keeps complicated values which are hard to
> represent to end user. e.g. link_speed has INT_MAX value which
> means that speed is unknown, link_duplex equal to 0 means
> 'half-duplex' etc. To simplify processing of the values
> in application, new dpdk function is introduced.
> 
> This commit adds function which treat link status structure
> and format it to text representation. User may create custom
> link status string using format string. If format string is NULL,
> the function construct standard link status string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Dyukov <i.dyukov@samsung.com>

Why pander to driver specific link messages?
This should come from core code in one format for all drivers.