| Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (v2.1) [message #14836 is a reply to message #14835] |
Wed, 11 July 2007 13:32   |
Pavel Emelianov
Messages: 1149
Registered: September 2006
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Pavel Emelianov wrote:
>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
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>>> Mhh doing it later means dealing with compatibility issues, which
>>> is why I'm asking now. We currently support IFLA_NAME, IFLA_MTU,
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>> Oh, I see.
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>>> IFLA_TXQLEN, IFLA_WEIGTH, IFLA_OPERSTATE and IFLA_LINKMODE, and
>>> with my patch additionally IFLA_ADDRESS and IFLA_BROADCAST.
>>> AFAICT they are all applicable for the partner link as well.
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>> Agree. Maybe it is better to make some generic routine to create the
>> device with the parameters specified in the netlink packet. Then the
>> generic code creates one end of a tunnel and calls ->new_link callback.
>> This callback extracts the PARTNER packet part and calls this generic
>> routine to create the second pair.
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> Something like that. Moving the part between NLM_F_CREATE and the
> ops->newlink call of rtnl_newlink to a new function should work.
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> For now you could even parse the IFLA_PARTNER attribute and nested
> IFLA_NAME/IFLA_ADDRESS attributes yourself and ignore the rest,
> this will at least leave us the option of handling it generically
> later.
OK. I'll try to make the generic call. Could you please send me the
patches with IFLA_ADDRESS support for booth kernel and ip utility.
Thanks,
Pavel
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