On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:01:43 -0400 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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. I don't think it matters because if device named is changed and it is down (!IFF_UP) then only CHANGENAME is sent. The NETDEV_CHANGE is just noise to an application. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
