netdev - RE: [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: Add support to netdev ops for changing hardware queue MAC and VLAN filters

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:12:31 -0700
From:	"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"shemminger@...tta.com" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: Add support to netdev ops for changing
	hardware queue MAC and VLAN filters

>From: Patrick McHardy [mailto:kaber@...sh.net]
>Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:59 AM

[snip]
>
>One argument would be that "ip link show" should probably display
>all filters, so they all need to be included in the dump message.
>
>And this is exactly the same message type used for configuring
>links and the API is supposed to be symetric, meaning you can
>send a dump message with NLM_F_REQUEST to the kernel again and
>it (re-)creates the same object.

Yeah, we've indentified that as a need - that's one reason we sent this out as an RFC. I'll implement the "show" semantics before we repost.

-Mitch
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