On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 02:47:01PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 00:52:47 -0400 > Si-Wei Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > + if (unlikely(dev->flags & IFF_UP)) { > > + struct netdev_notifier_change_info change_info = { > > + .info.dev = dev, > > + }; > > + > > + call_netdevice_notifiers_info(NETDEV_CHANGE, > > + &change_info.info); > > + } > > This notifier is not really necessary, there already is a CHANGENAME > that gets sent. > NETDEV_CHANGE is used in other cases to mean that the state (flags) > have changed.
The point is some existing scripts might not expect name change to happen without a status change afterwards (since it was impossible for so long). So this reports a change to make sure scripts do not miss it. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
