From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Robert McCabe <robert.mccabe@rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, McCabe@rockwellcollins.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net sched: Added the TC_LINKLAYER_CUSTOM linklayer type
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 17:34:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170704153450.GB1865@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA0ESdoOd9V_=NqUtM4Nmxvb+tz+AiMAfXvS6ndNLaif59+WUg@mail.gmail.com>
Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 04:49:24PM CEST, robert.mccabe@rockwellcollins.com wrote:
>> You dump stab->data to user. How is this related to TC_LINKLAYER_CUSTOM
>> and howcome this "is to support user-space modification of the qdisc
>> stab" as your description says? I'm confused...
>
>I have a related patch for iproute2 where the "custom" link-layer is
>used to allow
>user modification of the qdisc stab. Dumping stab->data to the user
>is used in the
>iproute2 patch to show the current size translation table.
Even so, the kernel patch you sent does not make any sense. Introduces
TC_LINKLAYER_CUSTOM but does not use it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-04 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-04 0:14 [PATCH 1/1] net sched: Added the TC_LINKLAYER_CUSTOM linklayer type McCabe, Robert J
2017-07-04 0:14 ` [PATCH 1/1] tc: custom qdisc pkt size translation table McCabe, Robert J
2017-07-04 5:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] net sched: Added the TC_LINKLAYER_CUSTOM linklayer type Jiri Pirko
2017-07-04 14:49 ` Robert McCabe
2017-07-04 15:34 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2017-07-04 15:40 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-07-04 17:12 ` Robert McCabe
2017-07-05 7:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-07-06 9:03 ` David Laight
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