From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 01/15] rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 18:35:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190702163557.GF20101@unicorn.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190702075500.1b9845e1@hermes.lan>
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 07:55:00AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:49:44 +0200 (CEST)
> Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> > Permanent hardware address of a network device was traditionally provided
> > via ethtool ioctl interface but as Jiri Pirko pointed out in a review of
> > ethtool netlink interface, rtnetlink is much more suitable for it so let's
> > add it to the RTM_NEWLINK message.
> >
> > Add IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS attribute to RTM_NEWLINK messages unless the
> > permanent address is all zeros (i.e. device driver did not fill it). As
> > permanent address is not modifiable, reject userspace requests containing
> > IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS attribute.
> >
> > Note: we already provide permanent hardware address for bond slaves;
> > unfortunately we cannot drop that attribute for backward compatibility
> > reasons.
> >
> > v5 -> v6: only add the attribute if permanent address is not zero
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
>
> Do you want to make an iproute patch to display this?
Yes, I'm going to submit it once this patch gets into net-next.
Michal
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-02 11:49 [PATCH net-next v6 00/15] ethtool netlink interface, part 1 Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:49 ` [PATCH net-next v6 01/15] rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:57 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-02 14:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-02 16:35 ` Michal Kubecek [this message]
2019-07-02 11:49 ` [PATCH net-next v6 02/15] netlink: rename nl80211_validate_nested() to nla_validate_nested() Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 12:03 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-02 12:15 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-02 12:15 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-02 11:49 ` [PATCH net-next v6 03/15] ethtool: move to its own directory Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:49 ` [PATCH net-next v6 04/15] ethtool: introduce ethtool netlink interface Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 12:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-02 14:52 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 8:41 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-08 17:27 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-08 18:12 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-08 19:26 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-08 19:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-08 20:22 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-09 13:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-10 12:12 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 1:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-03 6:35 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 05/15] ethtool: helper functions for " Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 13:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-02 16:34 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 1:28 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-03 10:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-03 11:13 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-08 12:22 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-08 14:40 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-03 1:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-03 7:23 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 06/15] ethtool: netlink bitset handling Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 11:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-03 13:44 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-03 14:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-04 12:07 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-03 18:18 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 8:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-04 11:52 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 12:03 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-04 12:17 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 12:21 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-04 12:53 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 13:10 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-04 14:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-07-09 14:18 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-10 12:38 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-10 12:59 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-10 14:37 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 07/15] ethtool: support for netlink notifications Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 13:33 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-03 14:16 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 8:06 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-03 13:39 ` Johannes Berg
2019-07-03 14:18 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 08/15] ethtool: move string arrays into common file Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 13:44 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-03 14:37 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 8:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 09/15] ethtool: generic handlers for GET requests Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 14:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-03 17:53 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 8:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-04 8:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-04 9:28 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 10/15] ethtool: provide string sets with STRSET_GET request Michal Kubecek
2019-07-04 8:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 11/15] ethtool: provide link mode names as a string set Michal Kubecek
2019-07-03 2:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-03 2:11 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-03 7:38 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 12/15] ethtool: provide link settings and link modes in SETTINGS_GET request Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 13/15] ethtool: add standard notification handler Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 14/15] ethtool: set link settings and link modes with SETTINGS_SET request Michal Kubecek
2019-07-02 11:50 ` [PATCH net-next v6 15/15] ethtool: provide link state in SETTINGS_GET request Michal Kubecek
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