From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: Add support for kernel side filtering Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 11:19:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20160516111931.1aaac4f3@xeon-e3> References: <1462974718-12860-1-git-send-email-dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Ahern Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f52.google.com ([209.85.220.52]:36416 "EHLO mail-pa0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753858AbcEPSTj (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2016 14:19:39 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id bt5so66650786pac.3 for ; Mon, 16 May 2016 11:19:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1462974718-12860-1-git-send-email-dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 11 May 2016 06:51:58 -0700 David Ahern wrote: > Kernel gained support for filtering link dumps with commit dc599f76c22b > ("net: Add support for filtering link dump by master device and kind"). > Add support to ip link command. If a user passes master device or > kind to ip link command they are added to the link dump request message. > > Signed-off-by: David Ahern > --- > include/libnetlink.h | 6 ++++++ > ip/ipaddress.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > lib/libnetlink.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > Was this tested on older kernels? Don't want to add something that breaks when run on old kernels that are in stable distros.