netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/6] rtnetlink: a bunch of fixes for userspace notifications in changing dev properties

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Message-Id: <20171016.204954.567930121040592246.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:49:54 +0100 (WEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com,
        hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/6] rtnetlink: a bunch of fixes for userspace
 notifications in changing dev properties

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 18:13:40 +0800

> Whenever any property of a link, address, route, etc. changes by whatever way,
> kernel should notify the programs that listen for such events in userspace.
> 
> The patchet "rtnetlink: Cleanup user notifications for netdev events" tried to
> fix a redundant notifications issue, but it also introduced a side effect.
> 
> After that, user notifications could only be sent when changing dev properties
> via netlink api. As it removed some events process in rtnetlink_event where
> the notifications was sent to users.
> 
> It resulted in no notification generated when dev properties are changed via
> other ways, like ioctl, sysfs, etc. It may cause some user programs doesn't
> work as expected because of the missing notifications.
> 
> This patchset will fix it by bringing some of these netdev events back and
> also fix the old redundant notifications issue with a proper way.

Series applied, thank you.