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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: add sub-command to view and change DSA master
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 08:29:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220906082907.5c1f8398@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220904190025.813574-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

On Sun,  4 Sep 2022 22:00:25 +0300
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> wrote:

> Support the "dsa" kind of rtnl_link_ops exported by the kernel, and
> export reads/writes to IFLA_DSA_MASTER.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> $ ip link set swp0 type dsa master eth1
> 
> $ ip -d link show dev swp0
>     (...)
>     dsa master eth0
> 
> $ ip -d -j link show swp0
> [
> 	{
> 		"link": "eth1",
> 		"linkinfo": {
> 			"info_kind": "dsa",
> 			"info_data": {
> 				"master": "eth1"
> 			}
> 		},
> 	}
> ]
> 
> Note that by construction and as shown in the example, the IFLA_LINK
> reported by a DSA user port is identical to what is reported through
> IFLA_DSA_MASTER. However IFLA_LINK is not writable, and overloading its
> meaning to make it writable would clash with other users of IFLA_LINK
> (vlan etc) for which writing this property does not make sense.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
> ---

Using the term master is an unfortunate choice.
Although it is common practice in Linux it is not part of any
current standard and goes against the Linux Foundation non-inclusive
naming policy.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-06 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-04 19:00 [PATCH iproute2] ip link: add sub-command to view and change DSA master Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-06 15:29 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-09-06 16:41   ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-06 16:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-09-06 19:13       ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-06 20:05         ` Andrew Lunn
2022-09-06 20:33           ` Florian Fainelli
2022-09-06 21:17             ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-09-06 21:34               ` Florian Fainelli
2022-09-06 21:37               ` Andrew Lunn
2022-09-08 12:51             ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-08 14:08               ` David Ahern
2022-09-08 14:25                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-09-08 16:11                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-08 16:35                     ` Florian Fainelli
2022-09-08 16:39                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-09-09  6:09                     ` Benjamin Poirier
2022-09-09 11:23                       ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-09 15:03                       ` Stephen Hemminger

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