Le 24/01/2017 à 17:06, David Miller a écrit :

From: David Ahern <redacted>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:31:44 -0700

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BTW, I am in favor of not requiring a user API for this but just
doing it. I can't imagine anyone working with multipath routes not
wanting the efficiency of the RTA_MULTIPATH attribute. These patches
require an API only because of the rule not to break userspace. If
we conclude to just do it without an API, the multipath_add and
multipath_del need to be modified to only send a notification once
at the end of the actions.

After some consideration, I agree.

Sorry for my late reply but I fear that this will break some userland apps like
quagga.
I agree that it would be better but the API is here since v3.8, ie 4 years.


Regards,
Nicolas