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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 02:19:11 +0530 (IST) From: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@....iitk.ac.in> To: KII Keiichi <k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com> cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 4/9] netconsole: Introduce netconsole_netdev_notifier On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, KII Keiichi wrote: > [...] > > But, in the case, we must think of the case of changing IP address > > because we can change IP address without disabling the network device and > > can't hook the event of changing IP address. > > Well, updating the local _IP_ address (for a particular interface) as > and when it changes would also be good ... it is another piece of info > exposed (read-write) to userspace through configfs, so makes sense to > keep it uptodate. > [...] (as long as it doesn't break > anything, as Matt warned earlier). I'm not aware of any existing > netdevice notifier that'll do this, so I'll look around (or trace > an ifconfig(8) / ip(8) to see what actually happens). I think inetaddr_chain / register_inetaddr_notifier() are what I'm looking for. I'll see if this does the job for us without breaking anything else. Satyam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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