On 5/27/17 8:14 AM, Vladislav Yasevich wrote: > When netdev events happen, a rtnetlink_event() handler will send > messages for every event in it's white list. These messages contain > current information about a particular device, but they do not include > the iformation about which event just happened. So, it is impossible > to tell what just happend for these events. > > This patch adds a new extension to RTM_NEWLINK message called IFLA_EVENT > that would have an encoding of event that triggered this > message. This would allow the the message consumer to easily determine > if it needs to perform certain actions. > > Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyase...@redhat.com> > --- > include/linux/rtnetlink.h | 3 +- > include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 11 ++++++++ > net/core/dev.c | 2 +- > net/core/rtnetlink.c | 65 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
