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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
To: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz•org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:51:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469631F5.7080207@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4695F214.6020401@openvz.org>

Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> +	if (data != NULL && data[VETH_INFO_PEER] != NULL) {
> +		err = nla_parse_nested(tb, IFLA_INFO_MAX,
> +				data[VETH_INFO_PEER], ifla_policy);
> +		if (err < 0)
> +			return err;
> +	}


One more suggestion regarding the PEER attribute: you only nest
IFLA attributes below it, but some information that might be
interesting to use on device creation is contained in ifinfomsg
(flags and ifindex). So I think it would be better to use a
complete message, including header.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-12  9:13 [PATCH 0/2] Virtual ethernet device (v3) Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12  9:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] Introduce the generic rtnl_create_link() Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12  9:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 12:31   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 13:14     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:21       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 13:36         ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:44           ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 13:58             ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:17     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:24       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-16  9:10         ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:51   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-07-12 14:01     ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 14:10       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-16  9:16         ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-16 13:13           ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12  9:21 ` [PATCH 0/2] Module for ip utility to support veth device (v.3) Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12  9:23   ` [PATCH 1/2] Intruduce iplink_parse() routine Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12  9:25   ` [PATCH 2/2] Module for ip utility to support veth device Pavel Emelianov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-19  9:24 [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (v.4) Pavel Emelyanov
2007-07-19  9:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver Pavel Emelyanov

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