On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:50:10 -0700 Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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(-) > Can you bridge these? -- 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
