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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] cfg/nl80211: send CMD_INTERFACE event on
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
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	Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:56:33 +0200
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On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 01:24 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> 
> Userspace applications may be listening for events (e.g.
> matching mgmt frame) on a given interface. If such interface
> is deleted they would keep hanging because no event will be
> delivered anymore.
> 
> Send a CMD_INTERFACE event on NETDEV_UNREGISTER to notify
> userspace that the interface does not exist anymore.

This is too slippery a slope for me, I'm not going to apply this. You
can listen to normal interface events in rtnetlink.

johannes