Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] net: Kernel side filtering for route dumps

From: Sowmini Varadhan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:37:12 -0400

On (10/11/18 09:33), Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> 3. All networking subsystems already have this type of netlink
> attribute filtering that apps rely on. This series
> just makes it consistent for route dumps. Apps use such mechanism
> already when requesting dumps.
> Like everywhere else, BPF hook can be an alternate parallel mechanism.

sure and that make sense. though I hope we will explore those
alternate mechanisms too.

--Sowmini