On 09/02/15 at 03:43pm, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:08:36PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > > This behaviour comes back from when we still had the IPv4 routing cache > > which was flat. > > So before the routing cache was removed, was the response always > RTA_TABLE_MAIN since there was no way to indicate which table may have > route if it came from the cache?
Yes, from that perspective, get and list are very different in behaviour. Again, I'm not against including this information but we can't break compatibility. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html