Re: [PATCH 0/5] tun/macvtap: TUNSETIFF fixes

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Dec 16 2014 - 11:20:34 EST


From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:04:53 +0200

> Dan Carpenter reported the following:
...
> And that's true: we have run out of IFF flags in tun.
>
> So let's not try to add more: add simple GET/SET ioctls
> instead. Easy to test, leads to clear semantics.
>
> Alternatively we'll have to revert the whole thing for 3.19,
> but that seems more work as this has dependencies
> in other places.
>
> While here, I noticed that macvtap was actually reading
> ifreq flags as a 32 bit field.
> Fix that up as well.

Looks good, series applied, thanks.
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