On 9/15/16, 9:48 AM, Patrick Ruddy wrote: > Add RTM_NEWADDR and RTM_DELADDR netlink messages with family > AF_UNSPEC to indicate interest in specific unicast and multicast > hardware addresses. These messages are sent when addresses are > added or deleted from the appropriate interface driver. > Added AF_UNSPEC GETADDR function to allow the netlink notifications > to be replayed to avoid loss of state due to application start > ordering or restart. > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Ruddy <pru...@brocade.com> > ---
RTM_NEWADDR and RTM_DELADDR are not used to add these entries to the kernel. so, it seems a bit wrong to use RTM_NEWADDR and RTM_DELADDR to notify them to userspace and also to request a special dump of these addresses. This could just be a new nested netlink attribute in the existing link dump ?
