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| author | Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> | 2012-08-08 21:52:46 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <[email protected]> | 2012-08-09 23:18:06 +0000 |
| commit | 9c7dafbfab1554705f85523fead578aa1a3d338c (patch) | |
| tree | 462dc2a2b854b3c7ad80a351a0ef780b790bc109 /drivers/net/loopback.c | |
| parent | net: Dont use ifindices in hash fns (diff) | |
| download | kernel-9c7dafbfab1554705f85523fead578aa1a3d338c.tar.gz kernel-9c7dafbfab1554705f85523fead578aa1a3d338c.zip | |
net: Allow to create links with given ifindex
Currently the RTM_NEWLINK results in -EOPNOTSUPP if the ifinfomsg->ifi_index
is not zero. I propose to allow requesting ifindices on link creation. This
is required by the checkpoint-restore to correctly restore a net namespace
(i.e. -- a container).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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