From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:05:02 -0400 Message-Id: Subject: [Bridge] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow full bridge configuration via sysfs List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Right now, you can configure most bridge device parameters via sysfs. However, you cannot either: - add or remove bridge interfaces - add or remove physical interfaces from a bridge The attached patch set rectifies this. With this patch set, brctl (theoretically) becomes completely optional, much like ifenslave is now for bonding. (In fact, the idea for this patch, and the syntax used herein, is inspired by the sysfs bonding configuration.) Patchset is against net-next-2.6, but should apply to anything reasonably recent with minimal fuzz. Bill Nottingham (2): Add a 'bridging_masters' file in sysfs under class/net Add a 'interfaces' file to the bridge device configuration in sysfs net/bridge/br.c | 2 + net/bridge/br_private.h | 4 ++ net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)