netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnl: Add support for netdev event to link messages

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:58:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, vyasevic@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnl: Add support for netdev event to link
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From: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 21:59:47 -0400

> RTNL currently generates notifications on some netdev notifier events.
> However, user space has no idea what changed.  All it sees is the
> data and has to infer what has changed.  For some events that is not
> possible.
> 
> This patch adds a new field to RTM_NEWLINK message called IFLA_EVENT
> that would have an encoding of the which event triggered this
> notification.  Currectly, only 2 events (NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS and
> NETDEV_MTUCHANGED) are supported.  These events could be interesting
> in the virt space to trigger additional configuration commands to VMs.
> Other events of interest may be added later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

At what point do we start providing the metadata for the changed
values as well?  You'd probably need to provide both the old and
new values to cover all cases.

> @@ -4044,6 +4076,7 @@ static int rtnl_stats_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
>  	return skb->len;
>  }
>  
> +
>  /* Process one rtnetlink message. */
>  
>  static int rtnetlink_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)

Please don't add more empty lines between functions, one is enough.