Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/6 v4] rtnetlink: Netlink interface for setting MAC and VLAN filters

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 23:55 -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch introduces the following netlink interface to set
> MAC and VLAN filters on an network interface. It can be used to
> set RX filter on any network interface (if supported by the driver) and
> also on a SRIOV VF via its PF
>
> Interface to set RX filter on a SRIOV VF
> [IFLA_VF_RX_FILTERS] = {
> 	[IFLA_VF_RX_FILTER] = {
> 		[IFLA_RX_FILTER_VF]
> 		[IFLA_RX_FILTER_ADDR] = {
> 			[IFLA_RX_FILTER_ADDR_FLAGS]
> 			[IFLA_RX_FILTER_ADDR_UC_LIST] = {
> 				[IFLA_ADDR_LIST_ENTRY]
> 			}
> 			[IFLA_RX_FILTER_ADDR_MC_LIST] = {
> 				[IFLA_ADDR_LIST_ENTRY]
> 			}
> 		}
> 		[IFLA_RX_FILTER_VLAN] = {
> 			[IFLA_RX_FILTER_VLAN_BITMAP]
> 		}
> 	}
> 	...
> }
[...]

Please put the details of both syntax *and semantics* in if_link.h.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux