netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] team: block mtu change before it happens via NETDEV

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:16:30 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vfalico@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] team: block mtu change before it happens
 via NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU

From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:02:19 +0100

> Now it catches the NETDEV_CHANGEMTU notification, which is signaled after
> the actual change happened on the device, and returns NOTIFY_BAD, so that
> the change on the device is reverted.
> 
> This might be quite costly and messy, so use the new NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU to
> catch the MTU change before the actual change happens and signal that it's
> forbidden to do it.
> 
> CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>

Also applied, nice work.
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