linux-kernel - Re: getneigh: add nondump to retrieve single entry

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Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 08:40:23 -0700
From:   Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     mcmahon@...sta.com
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, christian@...uner.io,
        khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru, lzgrablic@...sta.com,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        mowat@...sta.com, dmia@...sta.com
Subject: Re: getneigh: add nondump to retrieve single entry

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:04 AM <mcmahon@...sta.com> wrote:
>
> From: Leonard Zgrablic <lzgrablic@...sta.com>
>
> Currently there is only a dump version of RTM_GETNEIGH for PF_UNSPEC in
> RTNETLINK that dumps neighbor entries, no non-dump version that can be used to
> retrieve a single neighbor entry.
>
> Add support for the non-dump (doit) version of RTM_GETNEIGH for PF_UNSPEC so
> that a single neighbor entry can be retrieved.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Zgrablic <lzgrablic@...sta.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben McMahon <mcmahon@...sta.com>
> ---


I am a bit confused here. How is this different from  the below commit
already in the tree ?

commit 82cbb5c631a07b3aa6df6eab644d55da9de5a645
Author: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 19 12:51:38 2018 -0800
    neighbour: register rtnl doit handler