Subject: Re: [iproute2 net-next v2 0/3] ip netconf improvements

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:02:31 -0700

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:51:19 -0700
David Ahern <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Currently, ip netconf only shows data for ipv4 and ipv6 for dumps
> and just ipv4 for device requests. Improve the user experience by
> using the new kernel patch to dump all address families that have
> registered. For example, if mpls_router module is loaded then mpls
> values are displayed along with ipv4 and ipv6.
> 
> If the new feature is not supported (new iproute2 on older kernel)
> the kernel returns the nlmsg error EOPNOTSUPP which can be trapped
> and fallback to existing behavior.
> 
> v2
> - fixed index conversion in patch 3 per nicholas' comment
> 
> David Ahern (3):
>   netlink: Add flag to suppress print of nlmsg error
>   ip netconf: Show all address families by default in dumps
>   ip netconf: show all families on dev request
> 
>  include/libnetlink.h |  1 +
>  ip/ipnetconf.c       | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  lib/libnetlink.c     |  3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 

Sure applied, just wanted to make sure there was nothing interrelated
with recent spate of changes to netlink notifications.