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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@rosedu.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] netlink: support setting devgroup parameters
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:40:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294749651.3157.4.camel@mojatatu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110111121350.GB26417@cormyr>

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:13 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:

> 
> That sounds like a good idea, but, by using the same attribute,
> userspace won't be able to change the group of all the interfaces in a
> group, i.e. no more
> 	ip l set group 1 devgroup 0
> 
> However, I'm not sure that the use case above would be very common.

I think for the simple case we have been discussing this goes beyond
that. So maybe to KISS defer this to a later time.

cheers,
jamal


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-10 11:38 [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups Vlad Dogaru
2011-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] net_device: add support for network " Vlad Dogaru
2011-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] net/dummy: add device group parameter Vlad Dogaru
2011-01-10 21:37   ` David Miller
2011-01-11 12:17     ` Vlad Dogaru
2011-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] netlink: support setting devgroup parameters Vlad Dogaru
2011-01-10 13:14   ` jamal
2011-01-11 12:13     ` Vlad Dogaru
2011-01-11 12:40       ` jamal [this message]
2011-01-10 13:41 ` [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups Johannes Berg
2011-01-10 14:00   ` jamal
2011-01-10 14:08     ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-10 14:24       ` jamal
2011-01-10 14:38         ` Johannes Berg

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