netdev - Re: add/delete VLANs programatically

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Message-ID: <20080907113026.GA13354@mtls03>
Date:	Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:30:26 +0300
From:	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	Rami Rosen <roszenrami@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: add/delete VLANs programatically

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:58:20PM +0300, Rami Rosen wrote:

Hi Rami.

V> Hi,
>   -It seems to me that it is possible.
> 
>   - If  you look at the ordinary way in which user space add/deletes
> VLAN, you will see that this is performed by ioctls (SIOCSIFVLAN for
> adding /removing with ADD_VLAN_CMD or DEL_VLAN_CMD).
> - It is in performed by user space vconfig - VLAN (802.1q)
> configuration program.
> 
> - When looking  at how these IOCTLs are handled in the kernel, you
> will see that this is done by  vlan_ioctl_handler() in net/8021q/vlan.c.
> 
>  -If you look there, you will see that eventually adding a vlan is
> done in the kernel by
> register_vlan_device(net_device, VLAN ID);
> end deleing a vlan is done in the kernel by calling
> unregister_vlan_dev(net_device)
> 
> So it seems to me possible, though I did not try it.
I saw these functions but they're not exported to kernel modules so it
seems that I won't be able to use them from a kernel module.

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