On 6/30/26 1:02 PM, Yuyang Huang wrote:
> RTM_GETMULTICAST reports IPv4 and IPv6 multicast group membership, but
> does not include the per-group user count. Userspace therefore still has
> to parse /proc/net/igmp and /proc/net/igmp6 to obtain the Users column.
> In particular, this prevents iproute2 from moving "ip maddr show"
> entirely from procfs to rtnetlink.
> 
> Add IFA_MC_USERS to carry the user count in RTM_GETMULTICAST dumps and
> RTM_NEWMULTICAST / RTM_DELMULTICAST notifications for both address
> families. Update the rt-addr YNL specification and extend the rtnetlink
> selftest to verify that two joins increase the reported count by two.

Will you take care of implementing the iproute2 bits, too?

Thanks,

Paolo


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