[libvirt] [RFC] netlink monitor thread

Hello, I'm trying to get libvirt to recognize port profile disassociations, i.e. when the switch removes a port profile because lldpad has unexpectedly quit or the profile has been changed in the switches profile database, or when something went wrong otherwise. My take on this for testing was to have an external deamon log port profiles and changes to them, and tell lldpad to set them again if needed. But this is not really practical. I would like to find a way to have the libvitrd monitor netlink and take appropriate measures if, for example, a port profile is removed unexpectedly, that is: to call the VMs network setup again if macvtap/VEPA is used. There would be other benefits, like the detection if a link goes down on a used interface, or a device is unexpectedly configured down by another component. Looking at the deamon code I'm unclear on how to do this properly, this is a very linux specific thing, and the asynchronous nature of the request handling makes starting the monitor thread later on difficult. Thoughts, ideas ? D. Herrendoerfer