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Subject: Re: netlink NETLINK_ROUTE failure & Can the kernel really handle
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From: Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@ericsson.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:59:39 +0200

> The kernel module is a control module which collects information
> both from the kernel and from H/W, and talks to a userspace interface
> manager.
> 
> There is a proprietary management application which is used to
> configure the stack.
> This talks to the interface manager to handle different operations for
> IPv6.
> 
> The kernel module needs to know when interfaces are ready to use,
> I.E: know when it exits "tentative" mode to do its job properly,
> so the kernel module has to listen for RTM_NEWADDR.
> 
> In a simpler system, your approach would be OK.

Sorry, we're not going to help you with a proprietary driver
of this kind.

They should really just follow our upstream efforts to design
a usable kernel framework for bridge and routing hardware offloads.