From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>, nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com
Cc: David Miller <davem@redhat•com>,
stephen@networkplumber•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: hide devices starting with period by default
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 13:47:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01aa60dc-8bf2-3207-1abe-158100f52960@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26442035-25fd-ff9a-2804-ed21ec6198cf@gmail.com>
On 5/4/17 1:10 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 05/04/2017 09:37 AM, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 5/4/17 9:15 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>>> Le 24/02/2017 à 16:52, David Ahern a écrit :
>>>> On 2/23/17 8:12 PM, David Miller wrote:
>>>>> This really need to be a fundamental facility, so that it transparently
>>>>> works for NetworkManager, router daemons, everything. Not just iproute2
>>>>> and "ls".
>>>>
>>>> I'll rebase my patch and send out as RFC.
>>>>
>>> David, did you finally send those patches?
>>>
>>
>> No, but for a few reasons.
>>
>> It is easy to hide devices in a dump:
>>
>> https://github.com/dsahern/linux/commit/48a80a00eac284e58bae04af10a5a932dd7aee00
>>
>>
>> But I think those devices should also not exist in sysfs or procfs which
>> overlaps what I would like to see for lightweight netdevices:
>>
>> https://github.com/dsahern/linux/commit/70574be699cf252e77f71e3df11192438689f976
>
> Interesting that does indeed solve the same problems as the L2 only
> patch set intended. I am not exactly sure if hiding the devices from
> procfs/sysfs would be appropriate in my case (dumb L2 only switch that
> only does 802.1q for instance), but why not.
>
>
>>
>>
>> and to be complete, hidden devices should not be allowed to have a
>> network address or transmit packets which is the L2 only intent from
>> Florian:
>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg340808.html
>>
>
> Do you plan on submitting the LWT patch set at some point?
Definitely. Maybe I can find some time this weekend.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-04 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 19:50 [PATCH] iproute2: hide devices starting with period by default Stephen Hemminger
2017-02-23 23:39 ` David Ahern
2017-02-24 0:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-02-24 1:07 ` David Ahern
2017-02-24 1:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-02-24 15:38 ` Phil Sutter
2017-02-24 3:12 ` David Miller
2017-02-24 15:52 ` David Ahern
2017-05-04 15:15 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2017-05-04 16:37 ` David Ahern
2017-05-04 19:10 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-04 19:47 ` David Ahern [this message]
2017-05-05 6:47 ` Jiri Benc
2017-05-05 7:42 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2017-02-24 17:06 ` Andy Gospodarek
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