netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] netlink: support setting devgroup parameters

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Message-ID: <1294749651.3157.4.camel@mojatatu>
Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:40:51 -0500
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] netlink: support setting devgroup parameters

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:13 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:

> 
> That sounds like a good idea, but, by using the same attribute,
> userspace won't be able to change the group of all the interfaces in a
> group, i.e. no more
> 	ip l set group 1 devgroup 0
> 
> However, I'm not sure that the use case above would be very common.

I think for the simple case we have been discussing this goes beyond
that. So maybe to KISS defer this to a later time.

cheers,
jamal

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