Eric W. Biederman wrote: > The consensus from the last thread was pretty much that we need > to implement RTM_NEWLINK and RTM_DELLINK, if it is at all possible.
Yes, as I said, I can take care of this for 2.6.23. > So that we can get code reuse between different virtual devices. > Although I suspect we will need some per type attribute parsing. Yes, we could use IFLA_PROTINFO, but since some devices (for example bridging) already use a non-nested attribute for this when sending notifications, its probably better to introduce a new attribute for device specific stuff to keep things symetrical. - 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