[PATCH] Netlink: add krt_scope attribute

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:36:11PM +0200, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:22:02PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > > I though that kernel sets scope link automatically for device routes,
> > > but in reality it is done by ip tool. Perhaps we should do that too.
> > 
> > For device routes created by the kernel, scope is link, but if you
> > create them manually, you get a global scope.
> 
> My point was that 'ip' tool does that automatically for users:
> 
> # ip r a 10.1.1.0/24 dev eth0
> # ip r l
> 10.1.1.0/24 dev eth0  scope link 
> 
> Perhaps we should do that too. The fact that we do not set link scope
> for device routes sent to kernel is probably an oversight, not by design.

Here is an attached patch, which does that. Does it work for you?

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