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From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel (v.2)
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:00:10 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46697D0A.40006@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46682976.8050904@candelatech.com>

Ben Greear wrote:

[snip]

>>> I would also like some way to identify veth from other device types,
>>> preferably
>>> something like a value in sysfs.   However, that should not hold up
>>>     
>>
>> We can do this with ethtool. It can get and print the driver name of
>> the device.
>>   
> I think I'd like something in sysfs that we could query for any
> interface.  Possible return
> strings could be:
> VLAN
> VETH
> ETH
> PPP
> BRIDGE
> AP /* wifi access point interface */
> STA /* wifi station */
> ....
> 
> I will cook up a patch for consideration after veth goes in.
> 

Ben, could you please tell what sysfs features do you
plan to implement?

Thanks,
Pavel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-07 11:13 [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel (v.2) Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 11:16 ` [PATCH] Module for ip utility to support veth device (v.2) Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:59   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-07 15:23 ` [PATCH] Virtual ethernet tunnel (v.2) Ben Greear
2007-06-07 15:39   ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 15:51     ` Ben Greear
2007-06-07 16:04       ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-06-07 16:35         ` Ben Greear
2007-06-08 16:00       ` Pavel Emelianov [this message]
2007-06-08 17:00         ` Ben Greear
2007-06-08 19:49           ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2007-06-08 23:46             ` Ben Greear
2007-06-11 11:42       ` Patrick McHardy

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