From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Milan Kocian Subject: netlink messages on 'ip l s down' event Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:30:51 +0200 Message-ID: <1185125451.4376.83.camel@nt.wq.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from fw.wq.cz ([82.202.95.52]:49871 "EHLO rd.wq.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756517AbXGVSIx (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:08:53 -0400 Received: from [10.133.1.15] by rd.wq.cz with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ICfH2-0007Y0-SI for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:31:17 +0200 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org hello, I noticed that ipv4 subsystem sends RTM_NEWLINK message with new flags on 'ip l s down' event, but ipv6 subsystem sends RTM_DELLINK message. Is it inconsistency or feature? If it is inconsistency, which approach will be used in future? (tested kernels 2.6.20,21,22) Thanks for reply. regards, -- Milan Kocian