libteam needs this event notification in userspace when dev's master dev has been changed. After this, the redundant notifications issue would be fixed in the later patch 'rtnetlink: check DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY correctly in do_setlink'.
Fixes: b6b36eb23a46 ("rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER event") Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 8e44fd5..ab98c1c 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -4286,6 +4286,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi case NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER: case NETDEV_POST_TYPE_CHANGE: case NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS: + case NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER: case NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP: case NETDEV_CHANGEINFODATA: case NETDEV_CHANGE_TX_QUEUE_LEN: -- 2.1.0