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net: Allow to create links with given ifindex
authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:52:46 +0000 (21:52 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 9 Aug 2012 23:18:06 +0000 (16:18 -0700)
commita78e3ef099c24d171422a878ecfd22cf9d141502
tree462dc2a2b854b3c7ad80a351a0ef780b790bc109tree | snapshot
parenta1036eb9a3f2eb9745f0d2954f22f86eacbb7f5acommit | 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>
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