Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] bridge: mdb: add user-space support for extended attributes

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:09:06 +0100

On 02/22/2016 03:00 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email-masked]>
> 
> Recently support was added to the kernel to be able to add more per-mdb
> entry attributes via standard netlink attributes of type MDBA_MDB_EATTR_.
> This patch adds support to iproute2 to parse and output these
> attributes. The first exported attribute is the mdb "timer" value which
> is shown only when the "-d" iproute2 arg is used.
> 
> Example:
> $ bridge -d mdb show
> dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.11 permanent   0.00
> dev br0 port eth2 grp 239.0.0.11 permanent   0.00
> dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.10 temp 244.38
> dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.1 temp 245.41
> dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.5 temp 246.43
> dev br0 port eth2 grp 239.0.0.5 temp 248.48
> dev br0 port eth1 grp 239.0.0.2 temp 245.41
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email-masked]>
> ---
> note: this patch needs updated linux/if_bridge.h header to compile
> 

Self-NAK. I'll use the "-s"/stats as that seems to be used for some time
values instead and will update the man page. v2 coming up.

Sorry about the noise,
 Nik