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[204.195.96.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-21177e68960sm51173425ad.220.2024.11.09.14.53.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:53:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:53:35 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Matt Muggeridge Cc: David Ahern , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/1] net/ipv6: Netlink flag for new IPv6 Default Routes Message-ID: <20241109145335.0e9f3f62@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <20241105031841.10730-1-Matt.Muggeridge@hpe.com> References: <20241105031841.10730-1-Matt.Muggeridge@hpe.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 22:18:38 -0500 Matt Muggeridge wrote: > This is the cover letter and provides a brief overview of the change. > > Add a Netlink rtm_flag, RTM_F_RA_ROUTER for the RTM_NEWROUTE message. > This allows an IPv6 Netlink client to indicate the default route came > from an RA. This results in the kernel creating individual default > routes, rather than coalescing multiple default routes into a single > ECMP route. > > This change also needs to be reflected in the man7/rtnetlink.7 page. Below is > the one-line addition to the man-pages git repo > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git): > > diff --git a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 > index 86ed459bb..07c4ef0a8 100644 > --- a/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 > +++ b/man/man7/rtnetlink.7 > @@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ if the route changes, notify the user via rtnetlink > T} > RTM_F_CLONED:route is cloned from another route > RTM_F_EQUALIZE:a multipath equalizer (not yet implemented) > +RTM_F_RA_ROUTER: the route is a default route from an RA > .TE > .IP > .I rtm_table > > > Signed-off-by: Matt Muggeridge > Cc: David Ahern > Cc: David S. Miller > Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > Matt Muggeridge (1): > net/ipv6: Netlink flag for new IPv6 Default Routes > > include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h | 9 +++++---- > net/ipv6/route.c | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > base-commit: 5ccdcdf186aec6b9111845fd37e1757e9b413e2f Please send this to Linux man page maintainers. It isn't really a linux-api type change. Not sure if man pages project does a stable tree. https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/maintaining.html#:~:text=Maintaining%20Linux%20man-pages%20The%20current%20man-pages%20maintainer%20is,2020%2C%20Alejandro%20Colomar%20%28alx.manpages%40gmail.com%29%20has%20joined%20as%20comaintainer.