From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [IPROUTE 00/02]: rtnl_link support Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:48:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20070613104854.4f582711@localhost> References: <20070613170229.8318.75488.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49438 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758226AbXFMRtp (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:49:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070613170229.8318.75488.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:02:32 +0200 (MEST) Patrick McHardy wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > these patches add support for the rtnl_link stuff and VLAN configuration > to iproute. Since the old link configuration was entirely ioctl based and > mixing the two would be really ugly, this patch keeps the old ioctl stuff > guarded by an ifdef (defaults to enabled) and probes for support for > using RTM_NEWLINK. Tested to work properly on both old and patched kernel. > > I've added a new -d[etail] flag to ip, the driver specific things are only > printed when it is specified. I did this mainly because I'm not sure how > careful we want to be not to confuse people using sed/awk/... on iproute > output. I would prefer to have the information always shown, but I'll > leave that decision up to you. > > Changes since the last post: > > - Only call link argument parsing function if arguments are present > - Support xstats dumping > - Add sanitized if_vlan.h file for VLAN flag definition > - Support setting/changing VLAN flags > > Please apply, thanks. I'm putting out a new iproute2 next week. IF this is in mainline, it will go in then. If not, then there will be a development branch