From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, buytenh@wantstofly.org,
davem@davemloft.net, vyasevic@redhat.com, jhs@mojatatu.com,
chrisw@redhat.com, krkumar2@in.ibm.com, samudrala@us.ibm.com,
peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, gregory.v.rose@intel.com,
eilong@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/3] net: create generic bridge ops
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:46:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50945B42.4000502@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351895575.2703.5.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
On 11/2/2012 3:32 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 11:12 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
>> The PF_BRIDGE:RTM_{GET|SET}LINK nlmsg family and type are
>> currently embedded in the ./net/bridge module. This prohibits
>> them from being used by other bridging devices. One example
>> of this being hardware that has embedded bridging components.
>>
>> In order to use these nlmsg types more generically this patch
>> adds two net_device_ops hooks. One to set link bridge attributes
>> and another to dump the current bride attributes.
>>
>> ndo_bridge_setlink()
>> ndo_bridge_getlink()
> [...]
>
> Do you have any userland code for this?
Just sent this to netdev. Or you can pull it here,
git://github.com/jrfastab/net-next-iproute2-jf.git
I'll test your idx fix now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-02 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 18:12 [net-next PATCH v2 0/3] extend set/get netlink for embedded John Fastabend
2012-10-24 18:12 ` [net-next PATCH v2 1/3] net: create generic bridge ops John Fastabend
2012-11-02 22:32 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-02 23:46 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2012-10-24 18:13 ` [net-next PATCH v2 2/3] net: set and query VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE John Fastabend
2012-11-02 22:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-02 22:48 ` John Fastabend
2012-11-02 23:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-02 23:03 ` John Fastabend
2012-10-24 18:13 ` [net-next PATCH v2 3/3] ixgbe: add setlink, getlink support to ixgbe and ixgbevf John Fastabend
2012-10-25 21:09 ` [net-next PATCH v2 0/3] extend set/get netlink for embedded Ariel Elior
2012-11-13 17:16 ` John Fastabend
2012-10-31 17:21 ` David Miller
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