On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 06:33:42PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 03:23:07 +0200 > Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org> wrote: > > Hm, are you sure? NETCONFA_MC_FORWARDING is of type RTM_NEWNETCONF > > and expects ncm_family to be either AF_INET or AF_INET6 (at least in > > iproute2/ipmonitor.c). > > > > I agree with Sven on this, looks like the recent addition of netconf > configuration to netlink didn't embrace how multicast is handled in kernel. > > Multicast forwarding is a routing related configuration value. > All the multicast routing events come in as special family RTNL_FAMILY_IPMR > (see net/ipv4/ipmr.c function ipmr_fill_route). I would expect that multicast > routing daemons would like to be able to use special family to listen for > all multicast related changes (and not see non-multicast events). > > > Minor nit: the patch is formatted incorrectly (case should line up with > switch).
Yes, this seems reasonable but would need a small update to ipnetconf.c, too. Thanks, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
