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Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:41:31 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:     roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnl: Add support for netdev event to link
 messages

On 3/30/17 9:21 AM, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
> 
> So, something like the patch below would be better in your opinion as a
> starting point.  It'll can at least get the discussion strarted on whether
> an event would usefull to user space or not.

IMO that is a more direct, explicit statement of what is intended to happen.

> 
> However, that's really a separate point from what I was originally try to do.
> I would like to provide the event type itself to the user, so the user may
> perform some action based on that event.


yes, we took a tangent. I was asking about why the PRECHANGEMTU was
causing a message to be sent to userspace.

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