From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031188AbaLLR6h (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:58:37 -0500 Received: from demumfd001.nsn-inter.net ([93.183.12.32]:46370 "EHLO demumfd001.nsn-inter.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935219AbaLLR6f (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:58:35 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1275 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:58:35 EST Message-ID: <548B27CC.2060507@nsn.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:07:16 +0530 From: Sriram Raghunathan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: About ARP state change from Delay to Stale Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-Ad: Categorized by eleven eXpurgate (R) http://www.eleven.de X-purgate: clean X-purgate: This mail is considered clean (visit http://www.eleven.de for further information) X-purgate-size: 367 X-purgate-ID: 151667::1418405838-0000658F-5541BB47/0/0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'd a question about ARP entry state change from DELAY to STALE. I'm referring to 3.10 Master kernel, where this particular state change is not notified on neigh_update. In case, on creating a patch for the same, would it affect the kernel behavior ? Could you please share as why this state change is not notified right now? Sriram