Add option to ip link to set VF privileges
Subsystems (2)
v2 cover Add option to ip link to set VF privileges
This patch adds ip link option to change the privilege level for the specified VF.
Example usage:-
If the current Privilege of the VF is 0x86:
To add VLAN privilege to the VF,
ip link set ethX vf 0 privilege 0xC6
To add VLAN & MAC privilege to the VF,
ip link set ethX vf 0 privilege 0xE6
To give just default privileges to the VF
ip link set ethX vf 0 privilege 0x1
o/p of the *new* ip link show command:
ip link show eth2
9: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:00:c9:ef:7c:9a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
vf 0 MAC 00:00:c9:f6:b0:4d, privilege 0x1