Subject: Re: [patch net-next v4 14/21] bridge: add brport flags to dflt bridge_getlink

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:25:30 -0500

On 11/27/14 08:17, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 11/27/14 05:40, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> From: Scott Feldman <[email-masked]>
>>
>> To allow brport device to return current brport flags set on port.  Add
>> returned flags to nested IFLA_PROTINFO netlink msg built in dflt getlink.
>> With this change, netlink msg returned for bridge_getlink contains the
>> port's
>> offloaded flag settings (the port's SELF settings).
>
> Am i missing something or we already have this stuff showing up in user
> space today?
>

Sorry, in events it does but for some reason not in the GETs
even though trying to trace the code ndo_bridge_getlink()
i couldnt tell off hand why it is not showing up.
look at: br_port_fill_attrs() and its callers.

cheers,
jamal