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authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-04-04 18:03:30 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-04-05 04:22:27 +0400
commitb078f0df676233fc7ebc1ab270bd11ef5824bb64 (patch)
tree14eb5b201cfd451cf5c9df173ffb84be7cf62857 /net/bridge/br_netlink.c
parent664de48bb6c4e167fcdf92a4bddf880030fbfbb3 (diff)
downloadlinux-b078f0df676233fc7ebc1ab270bd11ef5824bb64.tar.xz
bridge: add netlink notification on forward entry changes
This allows applications to query and monitor bridge forwarding table in the same method used for neighbor table. The forward table entries are returned in same structure format as used by the ioctl. If more information is desired in future, the netlink method is extensible. Example (using bridge extensions to iproute2) # br monitor Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_netlink.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index f8bf4c7f842c..cedcafd115f3 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ int __init br_netlink_init(void)
/* Only the first call to __rtnl_register can fail */
__rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_SETLINK, br_rtm_setlink, NULL);
+ __rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_GETNEIGH, NULL, br_fdb_dump);
return 0;
}