netdev - Re: [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add and delete alternative ifnames

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Message-Id: <20190826.152525.144590581669280532.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:25:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...il.com
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        sthemmin@...rosoft.com, dcbw@...hat.com, mkubecek@...e.cz,
        andrew@...n.ch, parav@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add
 and delete alternative ifnames

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:24:38 -0600

> On 8/26/19 4:18 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> I honestly think that the size of link dumps are out of hand as-is.
> 
> so you are suggesting new alternate names should not appear in kernel
> generated RTM_NEWLINK messages - be it a link dump or a notification on
> a change?

I counter with the question of how much crap can we keep sticking in there
before we have to do something else to provide that information?