Hi all, This patch series implements a L2 only interface concept which basically denies any kind of IP address configuration on these interfaces, but still allows them to be used as configuration end-points to keep using ethtool and friends.
A cleaner approach might be to finally come up with the concept of net_port which a net_device would be a superset of, but this still raises tons of questions as to whether we should be modifying userland tools to be able to configure/query these interfaces. During all the switch talks/discussions last year, it seemed to me like th L2-only interface is closest we have to a "network port". Comments, flames, flying tomatoes welcome! Florian Fainelli (5): net: add IFF_L2_ONLY flag net: ipv4: Skip in_dev initialization for IFF_L2_ONLY interfaces net: ipv6: Skip in6_dev initialization for IFF_L2_ONLY interfaces net: dsa: Flag slave network devices with IFF_L2_ONLY net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Allow disabling tagging protocol drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- include/uapi/linux/if.h | 5 ++++- net/dsa/slave.c | 1 + net/ipv4/devinet.c | 3 +++ net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++++ 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
