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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for
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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.