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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	j.vosburgh@gmail.com, vfalico@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] rtnl/bond: don't send rtnl msg for unregistered iface
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 14:01:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55533D01.6070207@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150512171248.GD9559@gospo.home.greyhouse.net>

Le 12/05/2015 19:12, Andy Gospodarek a écrit :
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:58:42PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:17:45PM CEST, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com wrote:
[snip]
>>> First, nobody seems to care about NETDEV_CHANGEINFODATA (commit
>>> d4261e565000 says that it was put only to notify userspace). Hence, we can
>>> call directly rtmsg_ifinfo().
>>
>> Please leave this notifier here. Will be needed in very near future for
>> LAG offloading purposes.
>
> I agree with this.  It is extremely useful for a variety of reasons (not
> just the offload case), so please to do not remove it.
No problem, I will keep it.

For my knowledge, can you explain these "variety of reasons"?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-11 14:25 [PATCH net] rtnl: don't send rtnl msg for unregistered iface Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-11 15:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-05-11 16:04   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-11 16:15     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-11 17:53       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-05-11 22:15         ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-05-12  8:43         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 15:03         ` [PATCH net v2] rtnl/bond: " Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 15:06           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 15:17             ` [PATCH net v3] " Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 15:58               ` Jiri Pirko
2015-05-12 16:10                 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 16:14                   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-05-13 12:19                     ` [PATCH net v4] " Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-13 12:24                       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-05-13 12:36                         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-18  2:44                       ` David Miller
2015-07-13 14:11                       ` Kristian Evensen
2015-07-15 15:07                         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-16  9:06                         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-16  9:31                           ` [PATCH linux-3.18.y] rtnl: restore notifications for deleted interfaces Nicolas Dichtel
2015-05-12 17:12                 ` [PATCH net v3] rtnl/bond: don't send rtnl msg for unregistered iface Andy Gospodarek
2015-05-13 12:01                   ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2015-05-13 14:43                     ` Andy Gospodarek

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