netdev - Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (tunnel)

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Date:	Wed, 02 May 2007 15:57:10 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	hadi@...erus.ca, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (tunnel)

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The consensus from the last thread was pretty much that we need
> to implement RTM_NEWLINK and RTM_DELLINK, if it is at all possible.


Yes, as I said, I can take care of this for 2.6.23.

> So that we can get code reuse between different virtual devices.
> Although I suspect we will need some per type attribute parsing.


Yes, we could use IFLA_PROTINFO, but since some devices (for example
bridging) already use a non-nested attribute for this when sending
notifications, its probably better to introduce a new attribute for
device specific stuff to keep things symetrical.

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