On Fri, 21 May 2010 08:14:23 -0700
Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com> wrote:

quoted text
> This patch adds save and restore commands to "ip route". Save dumps
> the RTNL stream to stdout which can then be passed to restore later.
> This may be helpful in some normal situations, and will allow C/R to
> migrate the routing information in userspace.  Tweaking of the stream
> can be done by userspace helpers to convert between versions and adjust
> things like device indexes when restoring routes in a different
> environment.
> 
> By factoring out some of the common bits of print_route() into
> filter_nlmsg(), the "save" command can use the same selection logic
> as "list," allowing the caller to save only specific routes as
> necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com>

Looks good, please add man page and doc entry for this in final
version.
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