Re: [PATCH] net/ipv4: suppress NETDEV_UP notification on address lifetime update

2015-07-28 Thread David Miller
From: David Ward Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:18:58 -0400 > This notification causes the FIB to be updated, which is not needed > because the address already exists, and more importantly it may undo > intentional changes that were made to the FIB after the address was > originally added. (As a point

[PATCH] net/ipv4: suppress NETDEV_UP notification on address lifetime update

2015-07-26 Thread David Ward
This notification causes the FIB to be updated, which is not needed because the address already exists, and more importantly it may undo intentional changes that were made to the FIB after the address was originally added. (As a point of comparison, when an address becomes deprecated because its pr