On 5/16/16 12:19 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2016 06:51:58 -0700
David Ahern <[email protected]> wrote:
Kernel gained support for filtering link dumps with commit dc599f76c22b
("net: Add support for filtering link dump by master device and kind").
Add support to ip link command. If a user passes master device or
kind to ip link command they are added to the link dump request message.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
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include/libnetlink.h | 6 ++++++
ip/ipaddress.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
lib/libnetlink.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Was this tested on older kernels? Don't want to add something that breaks
when run on old kernels that are in stable distros.
Yes. Not really far back but older 4.x kernels.
In general older kernels do not parse the attributes appended to the get
request. This is very similar to the neigh filter added by
b8c753245bad3f13a03b105b724ff406d278c753.
