netdev - Re: [PATCH] ip/ipvlan: enhance ability to add mode flags to existing modes

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Message-ID: <20171101221822.16f0af36@shemminger-XPS-13-9360>
Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:18:22 +0100
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Changgong Li <chonggangli@...gle.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip/ipvlan: enhance ability to add mode flags to
 existing modes

On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:57:51 -0700
Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net> wrote:

> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
> 
> IPvlan supported bridge-only functionality prior to commits
> a190d04db937 ('ipvlan: introduce 'private' attribute for all
> existing modes.') and fe89aa6b250c ('ipvlan: implement VEPA mode').
> These two commits allow to configure the VEPA and private modes now.
> This patch adds those options in ip command.
> 
> e.g.
>   bash:~# ip link add link eth0 name ipvl0 type ipvlan mode l2 private
>   -or-
>   bash:~# ip link add link eth0 type ipvl0 type ipvlan mode l2 vepa
> 
> Also the output will reflect the mode and the mode-flag accordingly.
> e.g.
>   bash:~# ip -details link show ipvl0
>   4: ipvl0@...0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc ...
>      link/ether 00:1a:11:44:a5:3e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
>      ipvlan  mode l2 private addrgenmode eui64 numtxqueues 1 ...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>

Applied to net-next branch (now that this is upstream).
Thanks Mahesh