From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: maxk@kernel.org
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tun: TUNGETIFF interface to query name and flags
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:02:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218808944.3751.81.camel@muff> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808141158.57879.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:58 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 00:30:16 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > A very simple approach is attached; I did consider doing a TUNGETFLAGS
> > that would return tun->flags, but I think it's nicer to have a companion
> > to TUNGETIFF since it also allows one to query the interface name from
> > the file descriptor.
>
> This seems really sensible to me.
>
> If Max acks it,
How about it Max?
Trying a different email address - previous mail at:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121863813904363
> I'd say Dave should merge it.
Maybe it's too late already, but I'm really hoping to get this in
2.6.27.
Without it, the IFF_VNET_HDR goodness already added in 2.6.27 can't be
used by KVM guests created by libvirt ... which is a good chunk of the
potential users for this stuff.
Cheers,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-15 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-13 14:30 [PATCH 1/1] tun: TUNGETIFF interface to query name and flags Mark McLoughlin
2008-08-14 1:58 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-15 14:02 ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2008-08-15 18:10 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-08-15 18:00 ` Max Krasnyansky
2008-08-15 22:10 ` David Miller
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