Re: [RFC PATCH] rtnetlink: Add filter for VF info dump requests

From: "Rose, Gregory V" <redacted>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:45:59 +0000

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From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rtnetlink: Add filter for VF info dump requests

From: "Rose, Gregory V" <redacted>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:25:31 +0000

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That will change the semantics to the 'ip link show' command quite a

bit.

I think that's rubbish.

You can make "ip link show" do whatever you want, including setting all
feature bits in getlink requests, which will preserve existing behavior.

But there will be a change to the command line semantics no?  How do
I communicate which feature bits to set in getlink requests
otherwise?

Make "ip" internally default to "all" feature bits.  I don't really
understand what the consternation is.  Right now, that's what happens,
the kernel dumps all the attributes including "VF" stuff.