netdev - Re: [RFC V4 PATCH] rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size

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Message-Id: <20110518.184741.476096648010572360.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 18:47:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregory.v.rose@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC V4 PATCH] rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo
 dump size

From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:35:58 -0700

> It looked to me like rtmsg_ifinfo is called when each device is
> registered through register_netdevice() and rtmsg_ifinfo in turn
> calls the if_nlmsg_size function returning the ifinfo dump size for
> each device.  In my testing it looked like the proper maximum size
> was being set after I loaded the drivers for the SR-IOV capable
> devices.

Aha, indeed you're right.  I missed this part.  Thanks for explaining.

So as far as I can tell it should work, I'll let others review it to
see if they are ok with this approach.

Thanks.
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