netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups

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Message-ID: <1294666875.3583.6.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:41:15 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>
Cc:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>, Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 13:38 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> This patchset implements network device grouping and simple manipulation
> of groups. Netlink has been update to provide group information and
> means of applying changes to members of a specific group via a single
> message.

Can you explain the purpose of this? I'm wondering if it would make
sense to automatically group all virtual interfaces belonging to a
single 802.11 device, for instance.

johannes

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