netdev - Re: [patch net-next] net: add netnotifier event for upper device change

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Date:	Sun, 26 May 2013 09:10:39 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: add netnotifier event for upper device
 change

Sun, May 26, 2013 at 08:14:13AM CEST, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
>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 <jiri@...nulli.us>
>
>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"

Hmm. Do you have something particular in mind? My first thought was
passing some union instead of NETDEV_* numbers.

>
>This came up recently with the IFF_NOARP stuff.

Can you point me to the discussion?

Thanks

Jiri
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