netdev - Re: [PATCH V6 net-next 0/2] rtnetlink: Updates to rtnetlink

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Date:   Sat, 27 May 2017 18:52:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, jiri@...nulli.us, vfalico@...il.com,
        andy@...yhouse.net, vyasevic@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 net-next 0/2] rtnetlink: Updates to
 rtnetlink_event() 

From: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 10:14:33 -0400

> First is the patch to add IFLA_EVENT attribute to the netlink message.  It
> supports only currently white-listed events.
> Like before, this is just an attribute that gets added to the rtnetlink
> message only when the messaged was generated as a result of a netdev event.
> In my case, this is necessary since I want to trap NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS
> event (also possibly NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP event) and perform certain actions
> in user space.  This is not possible since the messages generated as
> a result of netdev events do not usually contain any changed data.  They
> are just notifications.  This patch exposes this notification type to
> userspace.
> 
> Second, I remove duplicate messages that a result of a change to bonding
> options.  If netlink is used to configure bonding options, 2 messages
> are generated, one as a result NETDEV_CHANGEINFODATA event triggered by
> bonding code and one a result of device state changes triggered by
> netdev_state_change (called from do_setlink).
 ...

Series applied, thanks Vlad.