Re: [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add and delete alternative ifnames
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2019-08-26 22:25:29
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2019-08-26 22:25:29
From: David Ahern <redacted> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:24:38 -0600
On 8/26/19 4:18 PM, David Miller wrote:quoted
I honestly think that the size of link dumps are out of hand as-is.so you are suggesting new alternate names should not appear in kernel generated RTM_NEWLINK messages - be it a link dump or a notification on a change?
I counter with the question of how much crap can we keep sticking in there before we have to do something else to provide that information?