netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] tuntap: allow overriding ethtool driver info

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Message-ID: <1374709687.1732.46.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:48:07 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
CC:	Helmut Grohne <h.grohne@...nusnetworks.de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] tuntap: allow overriding ethtool driver
 info

On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:13 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This patch adds new ioctl to allow setting the ethtool information
> returned by the TUN device. This is useful when using tun device as a surrogate
> for hardware or other software emulation.

I don't like this idea.  Which tools are you trying to fool?  How does
this work when you don't implement any driver-specific behaviour (e.g.
SIOCDEVPRIVATE) they expect?

> If the application does not override the ethtool settings, the
> original hard coded values are used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
[...]
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h	2013-07-24 11:24:55.543040360 -0700
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h	2013-07-24 11:35:54.620898504 -0700
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
>  #define TUNGETVNETHDRSZ _IOR('T', 215, int)
>  #define TUNSETVNETHDRSZ _IOW('T', 216, int)
>  #define TUNSETQUEUE  _IOW('T', 217, int)
> +#define TUNSETINFO     _IOW('T', 219, struct tun_info)
>  
>  /* TUNSETIFF ifr flags */
>  #define IFF_TUN		0x0001
> @@ -103,4 +104,11 @@ struct tun_filter {
>  	__u8   addr[0][ETH_ALEN];
>  };
>  
> +/* Subset of ethtool_info */
> +struct tun_info {
> +	char driver[32];
> +	char bus[32];
> +	char version[32];
> +};
> +
>  #endif /* _UAPI__IF_TUN_H */

What about fw_version?

Ben.

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