Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/3] net: create generic bridge ops

From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:46:10 -0700

On 11/2/2012 3:32 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 11:12 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
>> The PF_BRIDGE:RTM_{GET|SET}LINK nlmsg family and type are
>> currently embedded in the ./net/bridge module. This prohibits
>> them from being used by other bridging devices. One example
>> of this being hardware that has embedded bridging components.
>>
>> In order to use these nlmsg types more generically this patch
>> adds two net_device_ops hooks. One to set link bridge attributes
>> and another to dump the current bride attributes.
>>
>> 	ndo_bridge_setlink()
>> 	ndo_bridge_getlink()
> [...]
>
> Do you have any userland code for this?

Just sent this to netdev. Or you can pull it here,

git://github.com/jrfastab/net-next-iproute2-jf.git

I'll test your idx fix now.