netdev - Re: [RFC] bridge and friends: reduce TheLinuxWay(tm)

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Message-ID: <525EF570.3050105@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:22:08 -0400
From:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
To:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge and friends: reduce TheLinuxWay(tm)

On 10/16/2013 04:19 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>
> And another little glitch, iflink specifies
>
>      [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = {
>          [AF_INET] = {
>              [IFLA_INET_CONF] = ...,
>          },
>          [AF_INET6] = {
>              [IFLA_INET6_FLAGS] = ...,
>              [IFLA_INET6_CONF] = ...,
>          }
>
> But then bridge hijacks it and specifies:
>    [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = {
>        [IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS]
>        [IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE]
>        [IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO]
>    }
>
> Was that intended as:
>
>   [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = {
>     [AF_BRIDGE] = {
>         [IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS]
>         [IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE]
>         [IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO]
>     }
>   }
>
> Now granted that bridging uses PF_BRIDGE as the family and iflink uses
> PF_UNSPEC - but i do think this one is polluting the namespace.
>

Yes, I know about that one.  BRIDGE_FLAGS started the polution and then 
we continued it with the other attributes....

-vlad

> cheers,
> jamal

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