Re: [PATCH] iproute2: hide devices starting with period by default

Le 04/05/2017 à 21:47, David Ahern a écrit :

On 5/4/17 1:10 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:

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On 05/04/2017 09:37 AM, David Ahern wrote:

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On 5/4/17 9:15 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:

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Le 24/02/2017 à 16:52, David Ahern a écrit :

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On 2/23/17 8:12 PM, David Miller wrote:

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This really need to be a fundamental facility, so that it transparently
works for NetworkManager, router daemons, everything.  Not just iproute2
and "ls".

I'll rebase my patch and send out as RFC.

David, did you finally send those patches?

No, but for a few reasons.

It is easy to hide devices in a dump:

https://github.com/dsahern/linux/commit/48a80a00eac284e58bae04af10a5a932dd7aee00


But I think those devices should also not exist in sysfs or procfs which
overlaps what I would like to see for lightweight netdevices:

https://github.com/dsahern/linux/commit/70574be699cf252e77f71e3df11192438689f976

Interesting that does indeed solve the same problems as the L2 only
patch set intended. I am not exactly sure if hiding the devices from
procfs/sysfs would be appropriate in my case (dumb L2 only switch that
only does 802.1q for instance), but why not.

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and to be complete, hidden devices should not be allowed to have a
network address or transmit packets which is the L2 only intent from
Florian:
    https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg340808.html

Do you plan on submitting the LWT patch set at some point?

Definitely. Maybe I can find some time this weekend.

Ok, thank you for the details.

I agree with Jiri that the name should be something different than lwt.


Regards,
Nicolas