Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Leon Romanovsky
On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:11:46PM -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > > 3) Plan is to make the "new" iavf driver the default iavf once > > >extensive regression testing can be completed. > > > a. Current propos

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
ess of the common code module for multiple drivers. This > > proposal aims to avoid disrupting current users. > > > > The steps we plan are something like: > > 1) Continue upstreaming of the iecm module (common module) and > >the initial feature set for the idpf driver[1

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > 3) Plan is to make the "new" iavf driver the default iavf once > >extensive regression testing can be completed. > > a. Current proposal is to make CONFIG_IAVF have a sub-option > >CONFIG_IAVF_V2 that lets the user adop

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-09 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:28:58 -0800 Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > Hello, > > We plan to refactor the iavf module and would appreciate community and > maintainer feedback on our plans. We want to do this to realize the > usefulness of the common code module for multiple drivers. This

Re: [RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-08 Thread Leon Romanovsky
On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 04:28:58PM -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > Hello, > > We plan to refactor the iavf module and would appreciate community and > maintainer feedback on our plans. We want to do this to realize the > usefulness of the common code module for multiple drivers.

[RFC net-next] iavf: refactor plan proposal

2021-03-08 Thread Jesse Brandeburg
Hello, We plan to refactor the iavf module and would appreciate community and maintainer feedback on our plans. We want to do this to realize the usefulness of the common code module for multiple drivers. This proposal aims to avoid disrupting current users. The steps we plan are something

Proposal for a new protocol family - AF_MCTP

2021-02-12 Thread Jeremy Kerr
Hi all, I'm currently working on implementing support for the Management Controller Transport Protocol (MCTP). Briefly, MCTP is a protocol for intra-system communication between a management controller (typically a BMC), and the devices it manages. If you're after the full details, the DMTF have a

Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/smc: send ISM devices with unique chid in CLC proposal

2020-10-04 Thread Karsten Graul
On Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:05:38 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > Series applied, but could you send a proper patch series in the future > with a "[PATCH 0/N] ..." header posting? It must explain what the > patch series does at a high level, how it is doing it, and why it is > doing it that way. >

Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net/smc: send ISM devices with unique chid in CLC proposal

2020-10-03 Thread David Miller
From: Karsten Graul Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:09:26 +0200 > When building a CLC proposal message then the list of ISM devices does > not need to contain multiple devices that have the same chid value, > all these devices use the same function at the end. > Improve smc_find_ism_v2

[PATCH net-next 1/2] net/smc: send ISM devices with unique chid in CLC proposal

2020-10-02 Thread Karsten Graul
When building a CLC proposal message then the list of ISM devices does not need to contain multiple devices that have the same chid value, all these devices use the same function at the end. Improve smc_find_ism_v2_device_clnt() to collect only ISM devices that have unique chid values. Signed-off

[PATCH net-next 10/14] net/smc: build and send V2 CLC proposal

2020-09-26 Thread Karsten Graul
From: Ursula Braun The new format of an SMCD V2 CLC proposal is introduced, and building and checking of SMCD V2 CLC proposals is adapted accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun Signed-off-by: Karsten Graul --- net/smc/af_smc.c | 2 +- net/smc/smc.h | 6 ++ net/smc/smc_clc.c | 171

Re: Yet another ethernet PHY LED control proposal

2020-09-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I have been thinking about another way to implement ABI for HW control > of ethernet PHY connected LEDs. > > This proposal is inspired by the fact that for some time there is a > movement in the kernel to do transparent HW offloading of things (DSA > is an example of that

Yet another ethernet PHY LED control proposal

2020-09-11 Thread Marek Behun
Hello, I have been thinking about another way to implement ABI for HW control of ethernet PHY connected LEDs. This proposal is inspired by the fact that for some time there is a movement in the kernel to do transparent HW offloading of things (DSA is an example of that). So currently we have

[PATCH net-next 03/10] net/smc: dynamic allocation of CLC proposal buffer

2020-09-10 Thread Karsten Graul
exchange - * wait for and receive SMC Proposal CLC message */ - pclc = (struct smc_clc_msg_proposal *)&buf; - rc = smc_clc_wait_msg(new_smc, pclc, SMC_CLC_MAX_LEN, + buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!buf) { + rc = SMC_CLC_DECL_MEM; +

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-08-12 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 1:43 AM Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:18 PM Andrew Lunn wrote: ... > > I really think that before we consider changes like this, somebody > > needs to work on git tooling, so that it knows when mass renames have > > happened, and can do the same sort o

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:59:47 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Jarod Wilson > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:06:55 -0400 > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM David Miller wrote: > >> > >> From: Michal Kubecek > >> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:16 +0200 > >> > >> > Could we, please, avoid

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-16 Thread David Miller
From: Jarod Wilson Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:06:55 -0400 > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM David Miller wrote: >> >> From: Michal Kubecek >> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:16 +0200 >> >> > Could we, please, avoid breaking existing userspace tools and scripts? >> >> I will not let UAPI breakage, d

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-15 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:18 PM Andrew Lunn wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:04:16PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:26 PM Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > > > Hi Jarod > > > > > > Do you have this change scripted? Could you apply the script to v5.4 > > > and then cherry-

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-15 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:04:16PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:26 PM Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > > Hi Jarod > > > > Do you have this change scripted? Could you apply the script to v5.4 > > and then cherry-pick the 8 bonding fixes that exist in v5.4.51. How > > many result i

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-15 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM David Miller wrote: > > From: Michal Kubecek > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:16 +0200 > > > Could we, please, avoid breaking existing userspace tools and scripts? > > I will not let UAPI breakage, don't worry. Seeking some clarification here. Does the output of /pr

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-15 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:26 PM Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Hi Jarod > > Do you have this change scripted? Could you apply the script to v5.4 > and then cherry-pick the 8 bonding fixes that exist in v5.4.51. How > many result in conflicts? > > Could you do the same with v4.19...v4.19.132, which has 20

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-15 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:57 AM Edward Cree wrote: > > Once again, the opinions below are my own and definitely do not > represent anything my employer would be seen dead in the same > room as. > > On 13/07/2020 23:41, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > As far as userspace, maybe keep the old API's bu

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-15 Thread Edward Cree
Once again, the opinions below are my own and definitely do not  represent anything my employer would be seen dead in the same  room as. On 13/07/2020 23:41, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > As far as userspace, maybe keep the old API's but provide deprecation nags. Why would you need to deprecate the o

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 4:39 PM Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:17:48PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > > Jarod Wilson writes: > > > > > As part of an effort to help enact social change, Red Hat is > > > committing to efforts to eliminate any problematic ter

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-14 Thread Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:17:48PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > Jarod Wilson writes: > > > As part of an effort to help enact social change, Red Hat is > > committing to efforts to eliminate any problematic terminology from > > any of the software that it ships and supports. Front and c

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-14 Thread Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
Jarod Wilson writes: > As part of an effort to help enact social change, Red Hat is > committing to efforts to eliminate any problematic terminology from > any of the software that it ships and supports. Front and center for > me personally in that effort is the bonding driver's use of the terms

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
would include "ip link" command line arguments, sysfs and procsfs > interfaces, as well as netlink attribute names. There are also exported > kernel APIs that bonding utilizes, netdev_master_upper_dev_link, et al. To some people, this could be a case that warranted breaking UAPIs.

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:00 PM Michal Kubecek wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:51:39PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > To start out with, I'd like to attempt to eliminate as much of the use > > of master and slave in the bonding driver as possible. For the most > > part, I think this can be d

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:36 PM Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On 7/13/20 11:51 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > As part of an effort to help enact social change, Red Hat is > > committing to efforts to eliminate any problematic terminology from > > any of the software that it ships and supports. Front and ce

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread David Miller
From: Michal Kubecek Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:16 +0200 > Could we, please, avoid breaking existing userspace tools and scripts? I will not let UAPI breakage, don't worry.

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread Jay Vosburgh
n't document the old API values. Unless the community stance on not breaking user space has changed, the extant APIs must be maintained. In the context of bonding, this would include "ip link" command line arguments, sysfs and procsfs interfaces, as well as netlink attri

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread David Miller
From: Jarod Wilson Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:51:39 -0400 > To start out with, I'd like to attempt to eliminate as much of the use > of master and slave in the bonding driver as possible. For the most > part, I think this can be done without breaking UAPI, but may require > changes to anything acc

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread Andrew Lunn
Hi Jarod Do you have this change scripted? Could you apply the script to v5.4 and then cherry-pick the 8 bonding fixes that exist in v5.4.51. How many result in conflicts? Could you do the same with v4.19...v4.19.132, which has 20 fixes. This will give us an idea of the maintenance overhead such

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 03:41:18PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:16 +0200 > Michal Kubecek wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:51:39PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > > To start out with, I'd like to attempt to eliminate as much of the use > > > of master and slav

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:16 +0200 Michal Kubecek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:51:39PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > To start out with, I'd like to attempt to eliminate as much of the use > > of master and slave in the bonding driver as possible. For the most > > part, I think this can be

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 02:51:39PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > To start out with, I'd like to attempt to eliminate as much of the use > of master and slave in the bonding driver as possible. For the most > part, I think this can be done without breaking UAPI, but may require > changes to anything

Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread Eric Dumazet
On 7/13/20 11:51 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > As part of an effort to help enact social change, Red Hat is > committing to efforts to eliminate any problematic terminology from > any of the software that it ships and supports. Front and center for > me personally in that effort is the bonding drive

[RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

2020-07-13 Thread Jarod Wilson
As part of an effort to help enact social change, Red Hat is committing to efforts to eliminate any problematic terminology from any of the software that it ships and supports. Front and center for me personally in that effort is the bonding driver's use of the terms master and slave, and to a less

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Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 03:55:53PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 03:14:01PM CEST, and...@lunn.ch wrote: > > > >What is your user case for having multiple IFLA_ALT_NAME for the same > >IFLA_NAME? > > I don't know about specific usecase for having more. Perhaps Michal > does. One

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Jiri Pirko
eed something and easy to use for all. >> >> >> >> Let's call it "altname". Get would return: >> >> >> >> IFLA_NAME eth0 >> >> IFLA_ALT_NAME_LIST >> >>IFLA_ALT_NAME eth0 >> >>IFLA_ALT_NAME

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
re might be perhaps okay for iproute2, > >> but I think that we need something and easy to use for all. > >> > >> Let's call it "altname". Get would return: > >> > >> IFLA_NAME eth0 > >> IFLA_ALT_NAME_LIST > >> IFLA_AL

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Jiri Pirko
Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 03:14:01PM CEST, and...@lunn.ch wrote: >On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:12:16PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:20:41PM CEST, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: >> >On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:39:48 +0200 >> >Michal Kubecek wrote: >> > >> >> > >> >> > $ ip li set dev

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:12:16PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:20:41PM CEST, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: > >On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:39:48 +0200 > >Michal Kubecek wrote: > > > >> > > >> > $ ip li set dev enp3s0 alias "Onboard Ethernet" > >> > # ip link show "Onboard Eth

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Jiri Pirko
Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:42:12PM CEST, mkube...@suse.cz wrote: >On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:12:16PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> >> I think that it is desired for kernel to work with "real alias" as a >> handle. Userspace could either pass ifindex, IFLA_NAME or "real alias". >> Userspace mapping like

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:12:16PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > > I think that it is desired for kernel to work with "real alias" as a > handle. Userspace could either pass ifindex, IFLA_NAME or "real alias". > Userspace mapping like you did here might be perhaps okay for iproute2, > but I think tha

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Jiri Pirko
Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:20:41PM CEST, step...@networkplumber.org wrote: >On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:39:48 +0200 >Michal Kubecek wrote: > >> > >> > $ ip li set dev enp3s0 alias "Onboard Ethernet" >> > # ip link show "Onboard Ethernet" >> > Device "Onboard Ethernet" does not exist. >> > >> > So it doe

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Jiri Pirko
Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:35:27PM CEST, d...@redhat.com wrote: >On Thu, 2019-06-27 at 12:20 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:39:48 +0200 >> Michal Kubecek wrote: >> >> > > $ ip li set dev enp3s0 alias "Onboard Ethernet" >> > > # ip link show "Onboard Ethernet" >> > > Device

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-28 Thread Jiri Pirko
t a string, I though it might be possible to use >> it to carry longer names as it is. However, the userspace tools, like >> iproute2, are doing checks before print out. So for example in output of >> "ip addr" when IFLA_NAME is longer than IFNAMSIZE, the netdevice is >

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2019-06-27 at 12:20 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:39:48 +0200 > Michal Kubecek wrote: > > > > $ ip li set dev enp3s0 alias "Onboard Ethernet" > > > # ip link show "Onboard Ethernet" > > > Device "Onboard Ethernet" does not exist. > > > > > > So it does not real

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:39:48 +0200 Michal Kubecek wrote: > > > > $ ip li set dev enp3s0 alias "Onboard Ethernet" > > # ip link show "Onboard Ethernet" > > Device "Onboard Ethernet" does not exist. > > > > So it does not really appear to be an alias, it is a label. To be > > truly useful, it nee

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 08:35:38PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:23:05AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:08:03 +0200 Michal Kubecek wrote: > > > > > It often feels as a deficiency that unlike block devices where we can > > > keep one name and cr

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:23:05AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:08:03 +0200 > Michal Kubecek wrote: > > > It often feels as a deficiency that unlike block devices where we can > > keep one name and create multiple symlinks based on different naming > > schemes, network

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:08:03 +0200 Michal Kubecek wrote: > It often feels as a deficiency that unlike block devices where we can > keep one name and create multiple symlinks based on different naming > schemes, network devices can have only one name. There are aliases but > AFAIK they are only us

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:14:31AM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > > 4) There are two cases that can happen during rename: > >A) The name is shorter than IFNAMSIZ > > -> both IFLA_NAME and IFLA_NAME_EXT would contain the same string: > > original IFLA_NAME = eth0 > > ori

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Stephen Hemminger
nger names as it is. However, the userspace tools, like > > iproute2, are doing checks before print out. So for example in output of > > "ip addr" when IFLA_NAME is longer than IFNAMSIZE, the netdevice is > > completely avoided. > > > > So here is a proposa

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Jakub Kicinski
ple in output of > "ip addr" when IFLA_NAME is longer than IFNAMSIZE, the netdevice is > completely avoided. > > So here is a proposal that might work: > 1) Add a new attribute IFLA_NAME_EXT that could carry names longer than >IFNAMSIZE, say 64 bytes. The max size sho

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread David Ahern
e print out. So for example in output of > "ip addr" when IFLA_NAME is longer than IFNAMSIZE, the netdevice is > completely avoided. > > So here is a proposal that might work: > 1) Add a new attribute IFLA_NAME_EXT that could carry names longer than >IFNAMSIZE, say 64

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Dan Williams
le to > > use > > it to carry longer names as it is. However, the userspace tools, > > like > > iproute2, are doing checks before print out. So for example in > > output of > > "ip addr" when IFLA_NAME is longer than IFNAMSIZE, the netdevice is > > comp

Re: [RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Stephen Hemminger
ple in output of > "ip addr" when IFLA_NAME is longer than IFNAMSIZE, the netdevice is > completely avoided. > > So here is a proposal that might work: > 1) Add a new attribute IFLA_NAME_EXT that could carry names longer than >IFNAMSIZE, say 64 bytes. The max size sho

[RFC] longer netdev names proposal

2019-06-27 Thread Jiri Pirko
is just a string, I though it might be possible to use it to carry longer names as it is. However, the userspace tools, like iproute2, are doing checks before print out. So for example in output of "ip addr" when IFLA_NAME is longer than IFNAMSIZE, the netdevice is completely avoided. S

[RFC v2] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-06-06 Thread Stefano Garzarella
Hi all, this is a v2 of a proposal addressing the comments made by Dexuan, Stefan, and Jorgen. v1: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg570274.html We can define two types of transport that we have to handle at the same time (e.g. in a nested VM we would have both types of transport

Re: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-06-03 Thread Stefano Garzarella
t;>> specific host transport (e.g. adding new > >>>>> VMADDR_CID_LISTEN_FROM_KVM, > >>>>> VMADDR_CID_LISTEN_FROM_VMWARE, VMADDR_CID_LISTEN_FROM_HYPERV) > >>>> > >>>> Hmm...VMADDR_CID_LISTEN_FROM_KVM, VMADDR_CI

Re: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-31 Thread Jorgen Hansen
Hmm...VMADDR_CID_LISTEN_FROM_KVM, VMADDR_CID_LISTEN_FROM_VMWARE, >>>> VMADDR_CID_LISTEN_FROM_HYPERV isn't very flexible. What if my service >>>> should only be available to a subset of VMware VMs? >>> >>> You're right, it is not very flexibl

Re: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-30 Thread Stefano Garzarella
ps://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flkml.org%2Flkml%2F2017%2F8%2F17%2F551&data=02%7C01%7Cjhansen%40vmware.com%7Cc2a340a868bb4525c6d408d6e2905909%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C636945506938670252&sdata=kl820ZF1AAOXEyCZYoNPpYmLVyvK3ISr1GT0oDODEn4%3D&am

Re: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-28 Thread Jorgen Hansen
0vmware.com%7Cc2a340a868bb4525c6d408d6e2905909%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C636945506938670252&sdata=kl820ZF1AAOXEyCZYoNPpYmLVyvK3ISr1GT0oDODEn4%3D&reserved=0 > > > Below I tried to summarize a proposal for a discussion, following the > > > ideas > >

Re: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-27 Thread Stefano Garzarella
; > > As Stefan suggested me, I started to look at this discussion: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/17/551 > > Below I tried to summarize a proposal for a discussion, following the ideas > > from Dexuan, Jorgen, and Stefan. > > > > > > We can define two

Re: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-23 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
.org/lkml/2017/8/17/551 > Below I tried to summarize a proposal for a discussion, following the ideas > from Dexuan, Jorgen, and Stefan. > > > We can define two types of transport that we have to handle at the same time > (e.g. in a nested VM we would have both types of transport runni

Re: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-20 Thread Stefano Garzarella
Hi Dexuan, On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 09:48:11PM +, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > From: Stefano Garzarella > > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 1:16 AM > > To: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Stefan Hajnoczi ; Dexuan > > > > Hi guys, > > I'm currently interested on implement a multi-transport support for VSOCK in >

RE: [RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-16 Thread Dexuan Cui
> From: Stefano Garzarella > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 1:16 AM > To: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Stefan Hajnoczi ; Dexuan > > Hi guys, > I'm currently interested on implement a multi-transport support for VSOCK in > order to handle nested VMs. Hi Stefano, Thanks for reviving the discussion! :-) I

[RFC] vsock: proposal to support multiple transports at runtime

2019-05-14 Thread Stefano Garzarella
Hi guys, I'm currently interested on implement a multi-transport support for VSOCK in order to handle nested VMs. As Stefan suggested me, I started to look at this discussion: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/17/551 Below I tried to summarize a proposal for a discussion, following the ideas

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Re: kernel tls interface with user space modification proposal

2019-03-21 Thread Boris Pismenny
. > If kernel tls does not support a given cipher, then setsockopt fails and SSL > stack can fallback to non-ktls mode for the session and subsequent ones using > same cipher type. > > This would require passing the crypto material in a generic form which is same for all cipher

[RFC][Proposal] BPF Control MAP

2019-03-08 Thread Saeed Mahameed
In this proposal I am going to address the lack of a unified user API for accessing and manipulating BPF system attributes, while this proposal is generic and will work on any BPF subsystem (eBPF attach points), I will mostly focus on XDP use cases. So lately I started working on three different

kernel tls interface with user space modification proposal

2019-03-05 Thread Vakul Garg
setsockopt fails and SSL stack can fallback to non-ktls mode for the session and subsequent ones using same cipher type. This would require passing the crypto material in a generic form which is same for all cipher types. My proposal is that at the sestsockopt interface, instead of passing

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Re: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-08-03 Thread Dave Watson
On 08/02/18 05:23 PM, Vakul Garg wrote: > > I agree that Boris' patch does what you say it does - it sets keys > > immediately > > after CCS instead of after FINISHED message. I disagree that the kernel tls > > implementation currently requires that specific ordering, nor do I think > > that it

RE: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-08-02 Thread Vakul Garg
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Watson [mailto:davejwat...@fb.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 2:17 AM > To: Vakul Garg > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Peter Doliwa ; Boris > Pismenny > Subject: Re: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS > >

Re: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-08-01 Thread Dave Watson
On 07/31/18 10:45 AM, Vakul Garg wrote: > > > IIUC, with the upstream implementation of tls record layer in kernel, > > > the decryption of tls FINISHED message happens in kernel. Therefore > > > the keys are already being sent to kernel tls socket before handshake is > > completed. > > > > This i

RE: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-07-31 Thread Vakul Garg
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Watson [mailto:davejwat...@fb.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 2:46 AM > To: Vakul Garg > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Peter Doliwa ; Boris > Pismenny > Subject: Re: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS > > On 07

Re: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-07-30 Thread Dave Watson
he socket. I'm suggesting that you don't set the keys on the socket until after the FINISHED message. > > Or, why do you need to hand off the fd to the client program > > before the handshake is completed? > > The fd is always owned by the client program.. >

RE: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-07-29 Thread Vakul Garg
Sorry for a delayed response. Kindly see inline. > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watson [mailto:davejwat...@fb.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:30 PM > To: Vakul Garg > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Peter Doliwa ; Boris > Pismenny > Subject: Re: Security enh

Re: Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-07-25 Thread Dave Watson
even when the handshake verification has not been completed by the SSL > daemon. > It is a security problem if applications can receive data if verification of > the handshake transcript is not completed (done with processing tls FINISHED > message). > > My proposal: >

Security enhancement proposal for kernel TLS

2018-07-22 Thread Vakul Garg
(done with processing tls FINISHED message). My proposal: - Kernel TLS should maintain state of handshake (verified or unverified). In un-verified state, data records should not be allowed pass through to the applications. - Add a new control interface using which that

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