netdev - Re: [PATCH] arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for NETDEV_NOTIFY

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Message-Id: <20110215.105114.226760606.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:51:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for
 NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS.

From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:13:45 +0000

> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 01:46 +0000, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:44:16 +0000
>> 
>> > NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER is an explicit request by the driver to send a link
>> > notification while NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_CHANGEADDR generate link
>> > notifications as a sort of side effect.
 ...
> I nearly forgot -- the NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER stuff was tagged for
> stable/longterm backport (it appeared in 2.6.32.19 or so). I think this
> change should likewise go back, what do you think?

Sure, I've queued it up for -stable.
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