From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: add netnotifier event for upper device change Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20130525.231413.1228840457158928295.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1369491130-7412-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com To: jiri@resnulli.us Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44533 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753864Ab3EZGOO (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 May 2013 02:14:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1369491130-7412-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Pirko Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 16:12:10 +0200 > Now when upper device is changed, event is not propagated via RT Netlink > to userspace. Userspace might never now about the change. Fix this by > adding upper-device-change notifier event. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Looks good, applied, thanks Jiri. If someone is looking for a useful project, switching networking over to a more typed notifier system would be a worthwhile improvement. It's hard to right now to communicate what changed beyond "action X happened to this object, you have to check to see exactly how it changed" This came up recently with the IFF_NOARP stuff.