From: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@emulex.com>
To: <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [iproute2 RFC v2 0/2] Add option to ip link to set VF privileges
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:26:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120214192634.GA14320@akhaparde-VBox> (raw)
This patch adds ip link option to change the privilege level for the specified VF.
Example usage:-
If the current Privilege of the VF is 0x86:
To add VLAN privilege to the VF,
ip link set ethX vf 0 privilege 0xC6
To add VLAN & MAC privilege to the VF,
ip link set ethX vf 0 privilege 0xE6
To give just default privileges to the VF
ip link set ethX vf 0 privilege 0x1
o/p of the *new* ip link show command:
ip link show eth2
9: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:00:c9:ef:7c:9a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
vf 0 MAC 00:00:c9:f6:b0:4d, privilege 0x1
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