| commit | 9c7dafbfab1554705f85523fead578aa1a3d338c | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> | Wed Aug 08 21:52:46 2012 +0000 |
| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | Thu Aug 09 16:18:06 2012 -0700 |
| tree | 462dc2a2b854b3c7ad80a351a0ef780b790bc109 | |
| parent | b14f243a42c7aa43de71f878641acd003f223022 [diff] |
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 <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>