From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikolay Aleksandrov Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: mdb: add support for extended attributes Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 12:46:52 +0100 Message-ID: <1455623214-2951-1-git-send-email-razor@blackwall.org> Cc: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, Nikolay Aleksandrov To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:37998 "EHLO mail-wm0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753160AbcBPLrf (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2016 06:47:35 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id a4so95815843wme.1 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 03:47:35 -0800 (PST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Nikolay Aleksandrov Hi, This small set allows to extend the per mdb entry exported attributes, before this set we had only a structure exported which couldn't be changed because we would've broken user-space, after this we extend the attribute that was used for the structure and add per-mdb entry attributes after the struct has been added (see patch 02 for more details). Note that the reason we can't simply add an attribute after MDBA_MDB_ENTRY_INFO is that current users (e.g. iproute2) walk over the attribute list directly without checking for the attribute type. Patch 01 is a simple change to reduce one indentation level in order to avoid over 80 char lines. Cheers, Nik Nikolay Aleksandrov (2): bridge: mdb: reduce the indentation level in br_mdb_fill_info bridge: mdb: add support for more attributes and export timer include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h | 13 +++++++++++- net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3