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From: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppp: Add rtnl attribute IFLA_PPP_UNIT_ID for specifying ppp unit id
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:39:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210810153941.GB14279@pc-32.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210809193109.mw6ritfdu27uhie7@pali>

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 09:31:09PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Better to wait. I would like hear some comments / review on this patch
> if this is the correct approach as it adds a new API/ABI for userspace.

Personally I don't understand the use case for setting the ppp unit at
creation time. I didn't implement it on purpose when creating the
netlink interface, as I didn't have any use case.

On the other hand, adding the ppp unit in the netlink dump is probably
useful.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-10 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-07 16:37 [PATCH] ppp: Add rtnl attribute IFLA_PPP_UNIT_ID for specifying ppp unit id Pali Rohár
2021-08-09 19:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-08-09 19:31   ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-10 15:39     ` Guillaume Nault [this message]
2021-08-10 16:04       ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-11 17:19         ` Guillaume Nault
2021-08-11 17:54           ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-12  9:19             ` Guillaume Nault
2021-08-12 14:09               ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-12 19:12                 ` Guillaume Nault
     [not found]       ` <BN0P223MB0327A247724B7AE211D2E84EA7F79@BN0P223MB0327.NAMP223.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
2021-08-10 17:16         ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-10 18:11           ` James Carlson
2021-08-11 17:38             ` Guillaume Nault
2021-08-11 18:04               ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-12  9:28                 ` Guillaume Nault
2021-08-12 13:48                   ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-12 18:26                     ` Guillaume Nault
2021-08-12 19:04                       ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-16 16:11                         ` Guillaume Nault
2021-08-16 16:23                           ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-17 16:05                             ` Guillaume Nault
2021-08-17 16:21                               ` Pali Rohár
2022-07-09 12:09                                 ` Pali Rohár
2022-07-12 17:34                                   ` Guillaume Nault

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