From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:50:10 -0700
> 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! Interesting, indeed. Do you plan to extend this to defining a more minimal network device sub-type as well? Then we can pass "net_device_common" or whatever around as a common base type of actual net device "implementations". Or is you main goal just getting the L2-only semantic? -- 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
