netdev - Re: 6lowpan netlink

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Message-ID: <CAK-6q+h7497czku9rf9E4E=up5k5gm_NT0agPU2bUZr4ADKioQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:00:08 -0400
From:   Alexander Aring <aahringo@...hat.com>
To:     Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
Cc:     linux-wpan - ML <linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 6lowpan netlink

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 3:57 AM Stefan Schmidt
<stefan@...enfreihafen.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Alex.
>
> On 13.06.22 05:44, Alexander Aring wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to spread around that I started to work on some overdue
> > implementation, a netlink 6lowpan configuration interface, because
> > rtnetlink is not enough... it's for configuring very specific 6lowpan
> > device settings.
>
> Great, looking forward to it!

I would like to trigger a discussion about rtnetlink or generic. I can
put a nested rtnetlink for some device specific settings but then the
whole iproute2 (as it's currently is) would maintain a specific
6lowpan setting which maybe the user never wants...
I think we should follow this way when there is a strict ipv6 device
specific setting e.g. l2 neighbor information in ipv6 ndisc.

- Alex