netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] dev: always advertise rx

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Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:08:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] dev: always advertise rx_flags changes
 via netlink

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:02:45 +0200

> When flags IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI are changed, netlink messages are not
> consistent. For example, if a multicast daemon is running (flag IFF_ALLMULTI
> set in dev->flags but not dev->gflags, ie not exported to userspace) and then a
> user sets it via netlink (flag IFF_ALLMULTI set in dev->flags and dev->gflags, ie
> exported to userspace), no netlink message is sent.
> Same for IFF_PROMISC and because dev->promiscuity is exported via
> IFLA_PROMISCUITY, we may send a netlink message after each change of this
> counter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Applied.
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