netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: fix setlink/dellink notifications

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:57:12 -0800
From:	roopa <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com, vyasevic@...hat.com,
	john.fastabend@...il.com, jhs@...atatu.com, sfeldma@...il.com,
	jiri@...nulli.us, wkok@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: fix setlink/dellink notifications

On 1/14/15, 11:41 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 01/13/15 at 10:48pm, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com wrote:
>> 2) Generate one notification from master and the other notification from
>>     self (This seems to be ideal):
>>       For master: the master driver will send notification (bridge in this
>> 	example)
>>       For self: the self driver will send notification (rocker in the above
>> 	example. It can use helpers from rtnetlink.c to do so. Like the
>> 	ndo_dflt_bridge_getlink api).
>>
>> This patch implements 2) (leaving the 'rtnl_bridge_notify' around to be used
>> with 'self').
>>
>> CC'ing others who might be affected by this change for review.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> I haven't digested this line by line yet but I agree that what you
> describe above would be a good end state.
>
> If I read the patch correctly then we would omit one notification
> for the master case.
yes, correct.
> Were both notifications exactly identical
> previously?
> This has the chance of breaking existing users terribly.

yes AFAICT, because

rtnl_bridge_notify() from rtnetlink.c for bridge  results in calling 
br_fill_ifinfo() via ndo_bridge_getlink()
and the notification from bridge driver br_ifinfo_notify() also ends up 
calling br_fill_ifinfo().

Thanks,
Roopa

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