Andi> No. The proper way to communicate such things to higher
Andi> layers is over the destination entry (e.g. that is how path
Andi> mtu discovery is handled). The higher layers pick the
Andi> condition up as soon as they access the dst_entry again -
Andi> usually with the next packet which is the first time such a
Andi> link failure is interesting anyways.
Will the dst entry also affect protocols that use dev_queue_xmit()
method? And is the latter obsolete and should be replaced with the
destination output method as done in ipv[46]?
Henner
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