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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: wjhun@cisco.com, "" <greearb@candelatech.com>, "" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Getting details about an 802.1q VLAN interface from userspace
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:48:34 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030218214714.J25195@shell.cyberus.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030217.182915.41644338.davem@redhat.com>


I think these should be new attributes to RTM_*LINK.
No need to define a new message.

cheers,
jamal

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: Will Jhun <wjhun@cisco.com>
>    Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:39:21 -0800
>
>    Is there a better way to get this information via netlink or some
>    ioctl()? Would it be useful if I (or someone) added an ioctl() type to
>    get information about a VLAN interface? (vlan, ifindex of trunking
>    (real_dev) interface, priority maps; basically the content of struct
>    vlan_dev_info)
>
> I would accept new netlink interfaces to get and set this
> information.  ioctls are gross and will not be tolerated :)
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-19  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-13 22:39 Getting details about an 802.1q VLAN interface from userspace Will Jhun
2003-02-18  2:29 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-19  2:48   ` jamal [this message]
2003-02-19  3:13     ` David S. Miller

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