Patrick McHardy wrote:
Pavel Emelianov wrote:
Patrick McHardy wrote:

Pavel Emelianov wrote:

+       if (data != NULL && data[VETH_INFO_PEER] != NULL) {
+               err = nla_parse_nested(tb, IFLA_INFO_MAX,
+                               data[VETH_INFO_PEER], ifla_policy);
+               if (err < 0)
+                       return err;
+       }

One more suggestion regarding the PEER attribute: you only nest
IFLA attributes below it, but some information that might be
interesting to use on device creation is contained in ifinfomsg
(flags and ifindex). So I think it would be better to use a
complete message, including header.

I don't get it. Can you elaborate, please.


You don't have a struct ifinfomsg for the peer device. At some
point we might want to add support for specifying initial flags
for the device (some easily supportable ones are IFF_PROMISC,
IFF_ALLMULTI, IFF_NOARP) and ideally that should also be possible
for the peer device.

So I suggest you use a complete ifinfomsg including the header
instead of just the attributes for VETH_INFO_PEER.



I don't see any information from this struct being used on the
link-creation paths...

Pavel
-
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

Reply via email to