Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: Add support for kernel side filtering

2016-05-16 Thread David Ahern
On 5/16/16 12:27 PM, David Ahern wrote: In general older kernels do not parse the attributes appended to the get request. sorry, wrong wording: the attributes are parsed but ignored. I just checked an older 3.4 kernel tree and that is true there as well as prior to the kernel commit for this

Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: Add support for kernel side filtering

2016-05-16 Thread David Ahern
On 5/16/16 12:19 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2016 06:51:58 -0700 David Ahern wrote: Kernel gained support for filtering link dumps with commit dc599f76c22b ("net: Add support for filtering link dump by master device and kind"). Add support to ip link command. If a user passes m

Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: Add support for kernel side filtering

2016-05-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 11 May 2016 06:51:58 -0700 David Ahern wrote: > Kernel gained support for filtering link dumps with commit dc599f76c22b > ("net: Add support for filtering link dump by master device and kind"). > Add support to ip link command. If a user passes master device or > kind to ip link command t

[PATCH iproute2] ip link: Add support for kernel side filtering

2016-05-11 Thread David Ahern
Kernel gained support for filtering link dumps with commit dc599f76c22b ("net: Add support for filtering link dump by master device and kind"). Add support to ip link command. If a user passes master device or kind to ip link command they are added to the link dump request message. Signed-off-by: