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

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Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:00:21 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>,
	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 14:41 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

> 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.

It depends what you want to do with that grouping.
In a nutshell, this greatly reduces the amount of kernel-user netlink
traffic in presence of multi interfaces.
you can do things like:

ip link set dev ppp0 group 1
...
...
ip link set dev pppN group 1

ip link ls group 1
ip link set down group 1
ip link set mtu 512 group 1
etc

Although now that i am thinking of it,
I am not sure whether it would be a legit thing to change
the MAC address of a group of devices - we may need to put
some restrictions.

Note: this grouping thing can also be potentially used in
packet policies etc (but i dont want to distract the simple
requirement we have at the moment).

cheers,
jamal 

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