From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: make SR-IOV VF interface symmetric Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 09:55:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20100517095536.1ad6a317@nehalam> References: <20100515031416.GE15313@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20100517085936.39016980@nehalam> <20100517160732.GA8301@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Williams, Mitch A" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "kaber@trash.net" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "scofeldm@cisco.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Chris Wright Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:35538 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754353Ab0EQQzn (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 12:55:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100517160732.GA8301@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 17 May 2010 09:07:32 -0700 Chris Wright wrote: > * Williams, Mitch A (mitch.a.williams@intel.com) wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@vyatta.com] > > >Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 9:00 AM > > >To: Chris Wright > > >Cc: davem@davemloft.net; kaber@trash.net; Williams, Mitch A; > > >arnd@arndb.de; scofeldm@cisco.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org > > >Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink: make SR-IOV VF interface symmetric > > > > > >On Fri, 14 May 2010 20:14:16 -0700 > > >Chris Wright wrote: > > > > > >> Now we have a set of nested attributes: > > >> > > >> IFLA_VFINFO_LIST (NESTED) > > >> IFLA_VF_INFO (NESTED) > > >> IFLA_VF_MAC > > >> IFLA_VF_VLAN > > >> IFLA_VF_TX_RATE > > >> > > >> This allows a single set to operate on multiple attributes if desired. > > >> Among other things, it means a dump can be replayed to set state. > > >> > > >> The current interface has yet to be released, so this seems like > > >> something to consider for 2.6.34. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright > >> --- > > > > > >iproute2 update please? > > > > > >Also I would really like documentation on this. > > And a pony? ;-) > > Docs in what form? > The man page for ip.8 already has some pieces from other version. Just fix them. I just pushed up a couple of changes. --