From: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@enea.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bridge: HSR support
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:36:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAADA08.10803@enea.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111028175421.339b7c49@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:34:18 +0200
> Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@enea.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, so after a lot of reading and looking through code I have this idea of a
>> standalone solution:
>>
>> 1) Add ioctls to create (and remove) "hsr" netdevs which encapsulates two
>> physical Ethernet interfaces each (somewhat like the bridge code does, but
>> with precisely 2 interfaces slaved).
>
> Please use the newer netlink interface and the master attribute for this
> rather than inventing yet another ioctl.
Ok, will do! Thanks!
--
Arvid Brodin
Enea Services Stockholm AB
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20111011112821.28cd3e51@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
2011-10-11 23:51 ` bridge: HSR support Arvid Brodin
2011-10-12 13:28 ` David Lamparter
2011-10-12 14:24 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-10-24 14:17 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-10-28 15:34 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-10-28 15:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-10-28 16:36 ` Arvid Brodin [this message]
2011-12-06 23:23 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-12-06 23:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-12-07 18:30 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-12-07 19:59 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-12-08 14:45 ` Arvid Brodin
2011-11-21 16:52 ` Arvid Brodin
2012-01-06 18:11 ` Arvid Brodin
2012-01-12 18:02 ` bridge: HSR support - possible recursive locking? Arvid Brodin
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