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This patch allows reliable identification of netdevice interfaces connected to openvswitch bridges. In particular, user space queries the netdev interfaces belonging to the ports for statistics, up/down state, etc. Datapath dump needs to provide enough information for the user space to be able to do that. Currently, only interface names are returned. This is not sufficient, as openvswitch allows its ports to be in different name spaces and the interface name is valid only in its name space. What is needed and generally used in other netlink APIs, is the pair ifindex+netnsid. The solution is addition of the ifindex+netnsid pair (or only ifindex if in the same name space) to vport get/dump operation. On request side, ideally the ifindex+netnsid pair could be used to get/set/del the corresponding vport. This is not implemented by this patch and can be added later if needed. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.