netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH 0/3] improve MACVLAN/MACVTAP support

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Message-ID: <20151012094813.19ee60ea@urahara>
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:48:13 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH 0/3] improve MACVLAN/MACVTAP support

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:09:48 +0200
Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> wrote:

> While implementing support for MACVLAN_FLAG_NOPROMISC, I realized how similar
> iplink_macvlan.c and iplink_macvtap.c are and that the main differences (apart
> from substituting "macvlan" for "macvtap") were fixes and enhancements which
> weren't applied to both files. To prevent this in the future and to share
> common code, this series merges the files. In addition, it implements support
> for MACVLAN_FLAG_NOPROMISC and finally documents these interface types in
> ip-link.8.in.
> 
> Phil Sutter (3):
>   ip: link: consolidate macvlan and macvtap
>   ip: macvlan: support MACVLAN_FLAG_NOPROMISC flag
>   man: ip-link: document MACVLAN/MACVTAP interface types
> 
>  ip/Makefile           |   2 +-
>  ip/iplink_macvlan.c   |  68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  ip/iplink_macvtap.c   | 105 --------------------------------------------------
>  man/man8/ip-link.8.in |  50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 ip/iplink_macvtap.c
> 

Looks good applied. Always love to see more code deleted..
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