[PATCH 3/5 (resend)] veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex
From: Pavel Emelyanov <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-07 11:02:09
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The ifinfomsg is in there (thanks kaber@ for foreseeing this long time ago), so take the given ifidex and register netdev with it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <redacted> --- drivers/net/veth.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 5852361..496c026 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, if (tbp[IFLA_ADDRESS] == NULL) eth_hw_addr_random(peer); + if (ifmp) + peer->ifindex = ifmp->ifi_index; + err = register_netdevice(peer); put_net(net); net = NULL;
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