[Bridge] [PATCH net-next] bridge: netlink: add support for vlan_filtering attribute

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com
Fri Aug 7 16:28:23 UTC 2015


> On Aug 7, 2015, at 7:24 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor at blackwall.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
> 
> This patch adds the ability to toggle the vlan filtering support via
> netlink. Since we're already running with rtnl in .changelink() we don't
> need to take any additional locks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
> ---
> I'll post the iproute2 patch if this one gets accepted.
> 

Uh, I wanted to post a version that returns an error when vlan filtering isn’t supported
instead of always succeeding. So please drop this patch, I’ll post a v2 with that change
so the user will know if vlan filtering was actually enabled.





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