netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver

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Message-ID: <469B6EF2.50405@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:13:22 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver

Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> You don't have a struct ifinfomsg for the peer device. At some
>> point we might want to add support for specifying initial flags
>> for the device (some easily supportable ones are IFF_PROMISC,
>> IFF_ALLMULTI, IFF_NOARP) and ideally that should also be possible
>> for the peer device.
>>
>> So I suggest you use a complete ifinfomsg including the header
>> instead of just the attributes for VETH_INFO_PEER.
>>
>>
> 
> I don't see any information from this struct being used on the
> link-creation paths...


Thats what I explained twice, its not used today, it might be
used in the future for ifindex and flags.

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