netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] rtnetlink: Add filter for VF info dump requests

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Date:	Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:49:40 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregory.v.rose@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rtnetlink: Add filter for VF info dump requests

From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:45:59 +0000

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:44 AM
>> To: Rose, Gregory V
>> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rtnetlink: Add filter for VF info dump requests
>> 
>> From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:25:31 +0000
>> 
>> > That will change the semantics to the 'ip link show' command quite a
>> bit.
>> 
>> I think that's rubbish.
>> 
>> You can make "ip link show" do whatever you want, including setting all
>> feature bits in getlink requests, which will preserve existing behavior.
> 
> But there will be a change to the command line semantics no?  How do
> I communicate which feature bits to set in getlink requests
> otherwise?

Make "ip" internally default to "all" feature bits.  I don't really
understand what the consternation is.  Right now, that's what happens,
the kernel dumps all the attributes including "VF" stuff.


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