From: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:28:45 +0200

> Currently adding a new ipv4 address always cause the creation of the
> related network route, with default metric. When a host has multiple
> interfaces on the same network, multiple routes with the same metric
> are created.
> 
> If the userspace wants to set specific metric on each routes, i.e.
> giving better metric to ethernet links in respect to Wi-Fi ones,
> the network routes must be deleted and recreated, which is error-prone.
> 
> This patch implements the support for IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE for ipv4
> address. When an address is added with such flag set, no associated
> network route is created, no network route is deleted when
> said IP is gone and it's up to the user space manage such route.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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