Le 29/03/2017 à 16:13, David Ahern a écrit :
> On 3/29/17 3:36 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> Le 29/03/2017 à 07:32, David Miller a écrit :
>>> From: David Ahern <d...@cumulusnetworks.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:28:00 -0700
>>>
>>>> netconf notifications are sent as devices register but not when they
>>>> are deleted leaving userspace caches out of sync. Add support for
>>>> RTM_DELNETCONF to ipv4, ipv6 and mpls.
>> Not sure why those notifications are needed. When an interface is set down,
>> ipv4
>> route deletion are not notified. Why is it needed for netconf?
>>
>
> We carry a patch to send notifications for route deletes. In general, it
> makes management of libnl caches much easier when delete notifications
> are sent for each type. Without it, a link delete requires walking the
> other caches removing objects.
>
David rejected this kind of patch several times, but maybe he changed his mind.
