On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 08:03:39AM -0400, Naveen wrote: > Hi > Right now the only way to detect if an interface has a peer(veth) > is touse ethtool -S. Instead I was thinking of adding it to device > attributes as a peer_ifndex entry. In drivers/net/veth.c I could add > an entry to > dev->groups for a veth specific group. Would that be acceptable ? >
I've had similar discussions with others who agree with you that the current method is not ideal -- especially when there are a large number of namespaces in in use on a system. One such proposal was to have the output in ip link show (possibly only with the '-d' option), but no test patches have been written yet.... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
