[ANNOUNCE] iproute2 4.6

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Wed May 18 2016 - 15:13:10 EST


Update to iproute2 utility to support new features in Linux 4.5.
Major things are improvements to bridg mdb management, and bpf.
Also, support for new devlink infrastructure

Source:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/iproute2-4.6.0.tar.gz

Repository:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git

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Daniel Borkmann (5):
vxlan: add support to set flow label
geneve: add support to set flow label
tc, bpf: add new csum and tunnel signatures
tc, bpf: further improve error reporting
tc, bpf: add support for map pre/allocation

David Ahern (2):
vrf: Add support for slave_info
ip link: Add support for kernel side filtering

Edward Cree (1):
geneve: fix IPv6 remote address reporting

Elad Raz (1):
bridge: mdb: add support for offloaded mdb entries

Eric Dumazet (2):
iplink: display number of rx/tx queues
ss: take care of unknown min_rtt

Gustavo Zacarias (1):
iproute2: tc_bpf.c: fix building with musl libc

Jamal Hadi Salim (3):
tc: introduce IFE action
tc: don't ignore ok as an action branch
tc simple action update and breakage

Jeff Harris (1):
ip: neigh: Fix leftover attributes message during flush

Jesse Gross (2):
vxlan: Follow kernel defaults for outer UDP checksum.
geneve: Add support for configuring UDP checksums.

Jiri Benc (2):
ip link gre: create interfaces in external mode correctly
ip link gre: print only relevant info in external mode

Jiri Pirko (13):
include: add linked list implementation from kernel
add devlink tool
devlink: fix "devlink port" help message
list: add list_for_each_entry_reverse macro
list: add list_add_tail helper
devlink: introduce pr_out_port_handle helper
devlink: introduce helper to print out nice names (ifnames)
devlink: split dl_argv_parse_put to parse and put parts
devlink: introduce dump filtering function
devlink: allow to parse both devlink and port handle in the same time
devlink: add manpage for shared buffer

Luca Lemmo (3):
tc: f_u32: add missing spaces around operators
tc: f_u32: trivial coding style cleanups
tc: q_{codel,fq_codel}: add missing space in help text

Marco Varlese (1):
fix get_addr() and get_prefix() error messages

Nicolas Dichtel (1):
iplink: display IFLA_PHYS_PORT_NAME

Nikolay Aleksandrov (5):
bridge: mdb: add user-space support for extended attributes
bridge: mdb: add support for extended router port information
bridge: fdb: add support to filter by vlan id
bridge: mdb: add support to filter by vlan id
bridge: vlan: add support to filter by vlan id

Phil Sutter (22):
tc/p_ip.c: Minor coding style cleanup
tc: pedit: Fix for big-endian systems
tc: pedit: Fix raw op
testsuite: add a test for tc pedit action
doc/tc-filters.tex: Drop overly subjective paragraphs
tc: connmark, pedit: Rename BRANCH to CONTROL
man: tc-csum.8: Add an example
man: tc-mirred.8: Reword man page a bit, add generic mirror example
man: tc-police.8: Emphasize on the two rate control mechanisms
man: tc-skbedit.8: Elaborate a bit on TX queues
tc/m_vlan.c: mention CONTROL option in help text
man: tc-vlan.8: Describe CONTROL option
color: introduce color helpers and COLOR_CLEAR
ipaddress: colorize peer, broadcast and anycast addresses as well
make format_host non-reentrant by default
utils: make rt_addr_n2a() non-reentrant by default
lib/utils: introduce format_host_rta()
lib/utils: introduce rt_addr_n2a_rta()
lib/ll_addr: improve ll_addr_n2a() a bit
ip-link: Support printing VF trust setting
ss: Drop silly assignment
ss: Fix accidental state filter override

Quentin Monnet (1):
tc: add bash-completion function

Stephen Hemminger (22):
Update header files from net-next
iplink: display rx nohandler stats
ss: display not_sent and min_rtt info
tc: code cleanup
ip: code cleanup
bridge: code cleanup
misc: fix style issues
update kernel headers to 4.6 (pre rc1)
netconf: replace macro with a function
scrub out whitespace issues
devlink: ignore build result
ip: only display phys attributes with details option
ip: whitespace cleanup
devlink: remove unused code
devlink: remove more unused code
vv4.6.0

Zhang Shengju (2):
man: update netconf manual for new attributes
netconf: add support for ignore route attribute

subashab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (1):
ss: Remove unused argument from kill_inet_sock