On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:01:43 -0400
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 
> > This notifier is not really necessary, there already is a CHANGENAME
> > that gets sent.
> > NETDEV_CHANGE is used in other cases to mean that the state (flags)
> > have changed.  
> 
> The point is some existing scripts might not expect name
> change to happen without a status change afterwards (since it was
> impossible for so long). So this reports a change
> to make sure scripts do not miss it.


I don't think it matters because if device named is changed and it
is down (!IFF_UP) then only CHANGENAME is sent. The NETDEV_CHANGE is
just noise to an application.
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