netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] bridge: a netlink notification should be sent when those attributes are changed by br_sysfs

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:58:00 +0800
From:	Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, davem <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] bridge: a netlink notification should be
 sent when those attributes are changed by br_sysfs_if

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov
<nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 03:45 PM, Xin Long wrote:
>> do you think it''s redundant if we add a notification in bridge
>> fdb_flush to keep
>> consistence with port fdb_flush?
>>
> Hmm, technically we're doing this via a sysfs option and the netlink fdb flush
> one will generate a notification, so I'd say let's make them all consistent and
> make them all generate a notification, and also making the bridge fdb_flush use
> the bridge_store_parm should be trivial.
>
okay, I will also make this one use bridge_store_parm.

Thanks