netdev - Re: Does the ordering of the fib_table_dump or /proc/net/fib

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Message-Id: <20150106.165822.1294578064447416624.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:58:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does the ordering of the fib_table_dump or /proc/net/fib_trie
 matter?

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:30:06 -0800

> The question I have is if that would screw up any user-space apps.  I
> know ip route can dump the list via "ip route show".  I'm just wondering
> if there would be any problem with default being the last entry instead
> of the first entry?

The ordering already changed once when we went from fib_hash to
fib_trie, nobody should depend upon the ordering.
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