netdev - Re: [PATCH] iproute2: hide devices starting with period by default

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Message-ID: <26442035-25fd-ff9a-2804-ed21ec6198cf@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 4 May 2017 12:10:09 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...hat.com>, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: hide devices starting with period by default

On 05/04/2017 09:37 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 5/4/17 9:15 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> Le 24/02/2017 à 16:52, David Ahern a écrit :
>>> On 2/23/17 8:12 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>>> This really need to be a fundamental facility, so that it transparently
>>>> works for NetworkManager, router daemons, everything.  Not just iproute2
>>>> and "ls".
>>>
>>> I'll rebase my patch and send out as RFC.
>>>
>> David, did you finally send those patches?
>>
> 
> No, but for a few reasons.
> 
> It is easy to hide devices in a dump:
> 
> https://github.com/dsahern/linux/commit/48a80a00eac284e58bae04af10a5a932dd7aee00
> 
> 
> But I think those devices should also not exist in sysfs or procfs which
> overlaps what I would like to see for lightweight netdevices:
> 
> https://github.com/dsahern/linux/commit/70574be699cf252e77f71e3df11192438689f976

Interesting that does indeed solve the same problems as the L2 only
patch set intended. I am not exactly sure if hiding the devices from
procfs/sysfs would be appropriate in my case (dumb L2 only switch that
only does 802.1q for instance), but why not.


> 
> 
> and to be complete, hidden devices should not be allowed to have a
> network address or transmit packets which is the L2 only intent from
> Florian:
>     https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg340808.html
> 

Do you plan on submitting the LWT patch set at some point?
-- 
Florian