On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:51:41PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Hi Dave/all. > > There is quite common for drivers to speak with HW using "packet-like" > messages. In our case, we put message into skb and push that out as > an ordinary packet. HW then sends us reply in a packet, similar to other > rx-ed packets.
Better sure than sorry so I'll ask. It's not possible for an application to inject such skbs somehow, right? Like, a guest, tied to a bridge, tied to a port which ends up understanding these skbs. ... > 2) generic Netlink (genl) interface. Easy to put metadata in, including the > device identificator (pci address). User then can use nlmon in order to > be able to use wireshark to see the netlink messages. > > Looks like 2) might be viable, well-defined, generic interface to carry > this info. What do you think? Does this make sense? 2 seems very interesting, fwiw Marcelo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
