Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Network Event Notifier Mechanism

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:56:26 -0400

On Thu, 2006-22-06 at 15:58 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> Anyways, we can create normal notifiers for neighbour and route
> events just like we have for network device stuff.
>
> There should be netlink counterparts for that stuff too, which
> are generated by the notifier calls or similar.

Sounds reasonable - so someone deciding to do this from user space
would still be able to do so.

cheers,
jamal

PS:- I do think what they need is to hear route cache generation
as opposed to ARP+FIB updates; but lets wait and see how clever 
the patches would look.