[PATCH] Netlink: add krt_scope attribute

Vincent Bernat bernat at luffy.cx
Fri Sep 16 15:07:09 CEST 2016


 ❦ 16 septembre 2016 11:33 CEST, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> :

>> > 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?

Yes, works just fine for me!
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