In article <200307170038.EAA12945@dub.inr.ac.ru> (at Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:38:00 +0400 (MSD)), kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru says: > Actually, the original plan was to use ifli_family to query something > or to direct a request to a specific interface on some netdevice. > I wanted to reserve IFLI_PROTINFO attribute to encapsulate information > private for specific family. It was not realized mostly because of absense > of such information. > > Maybe, you will want to resurrect this. Ah, okay, I'm ok to reuse ifi_family in ifinfomsg{}. e.g. if ifi_family == AF_INET6 (and/or AF_UNSPEC?), kernel sends per-interface IPv6 information. IFLA_INET6 provides if_flags (etc?) IFLA_INET6_CONF provides cnf (without proc_dir_entry :-p) IFLA_INET6_STATS provides stats (XXX: missing entries in stats) IFLA_INET6_MCAST provides mc_XXX things etc, etc. sounds reasonable? -- Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> GPG FP: 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 4807 F894 E062 0EEA - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
