Vlad's recent patch to add the event type to rtnetlink notifications points out a number of redundant or unnecessary notifications sent to userspace for events that are essentially internal to the kernel. Trim the list before the new IFLA attributes become part of the UAPI.
David Ahern (8): rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for MTU events rtnetlink: Do not generate notification for UDP_TUNNEL_PUSH_INFO rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for CHANGEADDR event rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for POST_TYPE_CHANGE event rtnetlink: Remove NETDEV_CHANGEINFODATA netdev event rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for PRECHANGEUPPER event rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for NOTIFY_PEERS event rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for CHANGELOWERSTATE event drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 2 -- include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 - include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 9 --------- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 36 ------------------------------------ 4 files changed, 48 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4
