From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS.
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:14 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110215.105114.226760606.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297761225.21980.3663.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:13:45 +0000
> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 01:46 +0000, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:44:16 +0000
>>
>> > NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER is an explicit request by the driver to send a link
>> > notification while NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_CHANGEADDR generate link
>> > notifications as a sort of side effect.
...
> I nearly forgot -- the NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER stuff was tagged for
> stable/longterm backport (it appeared in 2.6.32.19 or so). I think this
> change should likewise go back, what do you think?
Sure, I've queued it up for -stable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-15 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-11 17:44 [PATCH] arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS Ian Campbell
2011-02-15 1:46 ` David Miller
2011-02-15 9:13 ` Ian Campbell
2011-02-15 18:51 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-03-14 9:26 ` Anders Franzen
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