From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com
Cc: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:20:35 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150910.102035.936401981874229191.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150910171630.GP20544@oracle.com>
From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:16:30 -0400
> On (09/10/15 10:13), David Miller wrote:
>> I don't think using such a generic netlink flag works best, the
>> IFLA_EXT_MASK is definitely more suitable.
>
> Ok, though this more of a IFLA_TRUNCATE_MASK than a IFLA_EXT_MASK.
IFLA_EXT_MASK is precisely for filtering out objects and attributes
from a netlink dump or reply, there is no reason to make a new
attribute with a different name for this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-10 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-09 21:34 IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS Sowmini Varadhan
2015-09-09 21:43 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS David Miller
2015-09-09 21:45 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS Sowmini Varadhan
2015-09-10 15:43 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS roopa
2015-09-10 15:48 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS Sowmini Varadhan
2015-09-10 17:13 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS David Miller
2015-09-10 17:16 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS Sowmini Varadhan
2015-09-10 17:20 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-09-10 15:19 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS Raghavendra K T
2015-09-09 23:00 ` IFLA_INET6_[ICMP6]STATS Eric Dumazet
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