From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/2] bridge: export port_no and port_id via IFA_INFO_DATA
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:53:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1354334023.9680.4.camel@cr0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121130075254.14aac5ce@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 07:52 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I don't think these are necessary. The device is already available and
> the relationship
> can be determined from other messages. This is what RSTP daemon does.
>
Rethinking about it, I think we can just put port->dev->ifindex instead
of port->port_no in the netlink message, so patch 1/2 is not needed at
more.
Thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-01 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 9:58 [PATCH net-next v1 1/2] bridge: export port_no and port_id via IFA_INFO_DATA Cong Wang
2012-11-30 9:58 ` [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] bridge: export multicast database via netlink Cong Wang
2012-11-30 11:26 ` Thomas Graf
2012-11-30 15:00 ` Cong Wang
2012-11-30 15:27 ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-01 3:56 ` Cong Wang
2012-11-30 9:58 ` [PATCH iproute2 v1] Add mdb command to bridge Cong Wang
2012-11-30 10:54 ` Thomas Graf
2012-11-30 14:50 ` Cong Wang
2012-11-30 10:18 ` [PATCH net-next v1 1/2] bridge: export port_no and port_id via IFA_INFO_DATA Thomas Graf
2012-11-30 14:51 ` Cong Wang
2012-11-30 15:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-01 3:53 ` Cong Wang [this message]
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