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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] rtnl/bond: don't send rtnl msg for unregistered
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Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 14:01:05 +0200
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Le 12/05/2015 19:12, Andy Gospodarek a =E9crit :
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:58:42PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Tue, May 12, 2015 at 05:17:45PM CEST, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com wrot=
e:
[snip]
>>> First, nobody seems to care about NETDEV_CHANGEINFODATA (commit
>>> d4261e565000 says that it was put only to notify userspace). Hence,=
 we can
>>> call directly rtmsg_ifinfo().
>>
>> Please leave this notifier here. Will be needed in very near future =
for
>> LAG offloading purposes.
>
> I agree with this.  It is extremely useful for a variety of reasons (=
not
> just the offload case), so please to do not remove it.
No problem, I will keep it.

=46or my knowledge, can you explain these "variety of reasons"?