jamal írta:
On Tue, 2007-16-10 at 13:05 +0200, Laszlo Attila Toth wrote:
That sounds great but for what whould you like to use? It may help me
for the implementation.
For example i may want to add a tc rule to a group of interfaces.
tc BNF roughly looks like:
tc <object> <operation> <target>
Where targe is := <dev devname>
It may be useful to extend "target" to include alternatively a group of
devices.
Ok, I see.
Currently it is not available since the the
net_device structure holds the group id and for this get operation an
iteration (of net_devices) may be necessary...
I understand - but i would rather do the iteration in the kernel than in
user space and save myself a gazillion netlink messages.
You are right - that's faster in the kernel and useless to move it to
userspace.
We didn't want to use multiple groups in favour of masked group ids.
What kind of usage needs other implementation?
Same lazyperson use cases as above; in one case i may want to set a rule
to group = {eth0, eth1, eth10} and in another {eth0,eth5}. I realize
this may be more involved something clever for an implementation (eg
using a bitmap instead of a straight int) - so if it not a simple thing,
just defer it to some later time.
Hm, the main problem (for me) is that it requires more then one value
per net device and it should be limited. But if I say it is 5 for
instance, anyone can say it is not enough for him.
Ok, now that you are asking, heres another one feature request for
you;-> It would be nice if i can set a group based on a regular
expression of a devices name; eg "ppp*". Use case for this, off top of
my head (without looking at your syntax):
ip set group 10 ppp*
ip link set ppp0 group 10
also if "ip link set..." works for multiple interfaces it is already
done. If it is not, it will affect positively all other settings :)
--
Attila
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