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authorDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>2017-04-11 17:02:42 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-04-13 13:16:33 -0400
commitcd8966e75ed3c6b41a37047a904617bc44fa481f (patch)
tree66cc3dd0815b80c4da8e694ec4dfe690bec86489
parent46ede612c7a3e1558c98345b611baf636d3ea65f (diff)
downloadlinux-cd8966e75ed3c6b41a37047a904617bc44fa481f.tar.bz2
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>
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 58722bf10d50..574f9b79919a 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -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: