netdev - Re: [PATCH net v3 0/2] ipv6: Fix listing and flushing of cached route exceptions

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:50:23 +0000
From:   Martin Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
CC:     Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>, Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 0/2] ipv6: Fix listing and flushing of cached route
 exceptions

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 03:38:06PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> The ability to list exceptions was deleted 2 years ago with 4.15. So far
> no one has complained that exceptions do not show up in route dumps.
> Rather than perturb the system again and worse with different behaviors,
> in dot releases of stable trees, I think it would be better to converge
> on consistent behavior between v4 and v6. By that I mean without the
> CLONED flag, no exceptions are returned (default FIB dump). With the
> CLONED flag only exceptions are returned.
+1