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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Linux Network Development Mailing List" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Maciej Żenczykowski" <maze@google.com>,
	"Lorenzo Colitti" <lorenzo@google.com>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tun: support not enabling carrier in TUNSETIFF
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:18:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220919101802.4f4d1a86@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220916234552.3388360-1-prohr@google.com>

On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:45:52 -0700
Patrick Rohr <prohr@google.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
> index 2ec07de1d73b..12dde91957a5 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h
> @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@
>  #define IFF_MULTI_QUEUE 0x0100
>  #define IFF_ATTACH_QUEUE 0x0200
>  #define IFF_DETACH_QUEUE 0x0400
> +/* Used in TUNSETIFF to bring up tun/tap without carrier */
> +#define IFF_NO_CARRIER IFF_DETACH_QUEUE

Overloading a flag in existing user API is likely to break
some application somewhere...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-19 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-16 23:45 [PATCH] tun: support not enabling carrier in TUNSETIFF Patrick Rohr
2022-09-16 23:54 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2022-09-19  6:52 ` Jason Wang
2022-09-19 17:18 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-09-20  0:01   ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2022-09-20  1:44     ` Jason Wang
2022-09-20 15:36       ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-09-20 19:48         ` [PATCH v2] " Patrick Rohr
2022-09-20 21:47           ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2022-09-21  2:53           ` Jason Wang
2022-09-21  6:35           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2022-09-23 11:10           ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-09-20  7:35 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Dichtel
2022-09-21  7:08 ` [tun] a4d8f18ebc: ltp.ioctl03.fail kernel test robot
2022-09-21  7:48   ` [LTP] " Cyril Hrubis

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