Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2-next] ip link: add sub-command to view and change DSA conduit interface

[David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>]

On 9/22/22 3:06 PM, Vladimir Oltean 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 conduit eth1
> 
> $ ip -d link show dev swp0
>     (...)
>     dsa conduit eth0
> 
> $ ip -d -j link show swp0
> [
> 	{
> 		"link": "eth1",
> 		"linkinfo": {
> 			"info_kind": "dsa",
> 			"info_data": {
> 				"conduit": "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>
> ---
> v1->v2:
> - update man page
> v2->v3:
> - update main ip-link help text to print the new 'dsa' link type
> - rename the 'master' keyword to 'conduit' and keep 'master' as a
>   fallback
> - to avoid using the 'DSA master' term in the man page, stop explaining
>   which interfaces are eligible for this operation, and just refer to
>   the kernel documentation. Note that since the support was added in
>   net-next, the htmldocs have not been regenerated yet.
> 
>  include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 10 ++++++

applied to iproute2-next.

always create patches against top of tree. had you done so I would not
have had to strip the uapi piece since it is already there.