[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ofp-print: Abbreviate duplicated table features.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 10:17:05PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I spent some time recently looking at the results of "ovs-ofctl
> dump-table-features".  It was really distressing because of the volume of
> information.  Every table yielded well over 100 lines of output and for 253
> (visible) tables that meant over 25,300 lines of output total, which is
> basically unusable.
> 
> This commit cuts the volume of output greatly by eliminating most of the
> duplication from one table to the next.  The command now prints the full
> output only for table 0, and for each subsequent table prints only the
> parts that differ.  That reduces the output volume for tables after the
> first to only 9 lines each (one of which is blank), for a total of more
> like 2,400 lines, which is still not short but reasonably manageable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

This could use a review.