From: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti•com>
To: "open list:TI NETCP ETHERNET DRIVER" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
"eric.dumazet@gmail•com >> Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: SNMP read-write MIBs
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 10:47:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5819FC7F.1090607@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5818D9B0.60907@ti.com>
+ David, Eric,
On 11/01/2016 02:06 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
> Hello netdev experts,
>
> I am investigating the requirements to support hsr/prp SNMP functions in kernel.
> Based on my investigation so far, the kernel include file include/net/snmp.h
> defines all of the SNMP MIBS related defines and structures. But the MIBs are
> read-only type MIBs. Is there any implementation of read-write MIBs in kernel?
>
> One of the specs for MIBs that are investigating have read-write MIBs and
> wondering if we have any precedence of such MIBs implemented in kernel space.
> If not, what is the suggested way to implement these MIBs in kernel space?
>
> I assume that to implement read-only MIBs for hsr driver, I need to add
> them to snmp.h and use standard Macros in snmp.h to update them from the driver.
>
> Thanks
>
> Murali Karicheri
> Linux Kernel, Keystone
>
I did some more research on this, and found some of the (not sure if there is any
in kernel) read-write MIBs are implemented in the net-snmp, where
it communicate using a raw socket and calling an ioctl. Is this the way to go
to implement the read-write MIBs?
Thanks
--
Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Keystone
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