Commit cd8966e7 authored Apr 11, 2017 by David Ahern Committed by David S. Miller Apr 13, 2017

rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for CHANGEADDR event



Changing hardware address generates redundant messages:

[LINK]11: dummy1: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
    link/ether 02:02:02:02:02:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

[LINK]11: dummy1: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
    link/ether 02:02:02:02:02:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Do not send a notification for the CHANGEADDR notifier.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 46ede612

net/core/rtnetlink.c

+0 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -4117,7 +4117,6 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi

		switch (event) {
		case NETDEV_REBOOT:
		case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
		case NETDEV_CHANGENAME:
		case NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE:
		case NETDEV_BONDING_FAILOVER:

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