From: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:35:24 -0700
> FWIW, there have been a couple of proposals floating around > bonding-devel for a while from people looking to get the skb->real_dev > in user space (for network manager applications and user-level link > state monitor type things). There was a patch posted to bonding-devel a > couple of months ago proposing a sockopt to pass the real_dev up to user > space. I'm not sure where things stand with them now. I don't think we really want that. People could ask for that for any similar relationship of encapsulation, and real_dev only works for one level so doesn't cover all cases anyways. Going the other way is simpler of course, because of dev->master - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
