From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] netlink: support setting devgroup parameters Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:40:51 -0500 Message-ID: <1294749651.3157.4.camel@mojatatu> References: <1294659524-22509-1-git-send-email-ddvlad@rosedu.org> <1294659524-22509-4-git-send-email-ddvlad@rosedu.org> <1294665273.6063.292.camel@mojatatu> <20110111121350.GB26417@cormyr> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Octavian Purdila To: Vlad Dogaru Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:48112 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755700Ab1AKMkz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:40:55 -0500 Received: by gyb11 with SMTP id 11so7716781gyb.19 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:40:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110111121350.GB26417@cormyr> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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