Merge branch 'route-offload-failure'
net: Add support for route offload failure notifications Ido Schimmel says: ==================== This is a complementary series to the one merged in commit 389cb1ec ("Merge branch 'add-notifications-when-route-hardware-flags-change'"). The previous series added RTM_NEWROUTE notifications to user space whenever a route was successfully installed in hardware or when its state in hardware changed. This allows routing daemons to delay advertisement of routes until they are installed in hardware. However, if route installation failed, a routing daemon will wait indefinitely for a notification that will never come. The aim of this series is to provide a failure notification via a new flag (RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED) in the RTM_NEWROUTE message. Upon such a notification a routing daemon may decide to withdraw the route from the FIB. Series overview: Patch #1 adds the new RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag Patches #2-#3 and #4-#5 add failure notifications to IPv4 and IPv6, respectively Patches #6-#8 teach netdevsim to fail route installation via a new knob in debugfs Patch #9 extends mlxsw to mark routes with the new flag Patch #10 adds test cases for the new notification over netdevsim ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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