From: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 V2] macvlan fdb replace support
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:16:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51ED309E.80201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130719091855.6c763231@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On 07/19/2013 06:18 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:20:08 +0200
> Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Add support for iproute2 command 'bridge fdb replace ...'.
>> The rtnletlink call back function ndo_fdb_add will be called
>> with the NLM_F_REPLACE flag set.
>> Simply return -EOPNOTSUP.
>>
>> Resubmitted because net-next was closed last week.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/macvlan.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
>> index 18373b6..74907f5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
>> @@ -597,6 +597,9 @@ static int macvlan_fdb_add(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct nlattr *tb[],
>> if (!vlan->port->passthru)
>> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>
>> + if (flags & NLM_F_REPLACE)
>> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> +
>> if (is_unicast_ether_addr(addr))
>> err = dev_uc_add_excl(dev, addr);
>> else if (is_multicast_ether_addr(addr))
>
> What about bridge that also uses netlink FDB interface?
>
The bridge function br_fdb_add() calls fdb_add_entry().
There is no need to check flag NLM_F_REPLACE.
The code already changes an entry if it is found
in the fdb. If the entry is missing in the
fdb, it is added when flag NLM_F_CREATE is set.
--
Thomas Richter, Dept 3250, IBM LTC Boeblingen, Data Center Networking
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-22 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-19 15:20 [PATCH 1/2 V2] vxlan fdb replace an existing entry Thomas Richter
2013-07-19 15:20 ` [PATCH 2/2 V2] macvlan fdb replace support Thomas Richter
2013-07-19 16:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-07-22 13:16 ` Thomas-Mich Richter [this message]
2013-07-23 23:36 ` David Miller
2013-07-23 23:36 ` [PATCH 1/2 V2] vxlan fdb replace an existing entry David Miller
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2013-07-12 7:10 Thomas Richter
2013-07-12 7:10 ` [PATCH 2/2 V2] macvlan fdb replace support Thomas Richter
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