On 05/18/2011 08:17 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

The first netlink code in the bridge module was to notify
user space implementations of Spanning Tree Protocol about
new ports. It did not handle the case of kernel mode STP
changing states which could be useful for monitoring.

This patch causes RTM_NEWLINK message to occur on kernel
transitions. It does not send message if request was from user
space STP, since that would cause reflection and break existing
API.

So one app monitoring the system won't get updates if another
app makes changes?

Ben

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