From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels•com>
To: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:36:57 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50160F69.7020205@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50160EEF.6050406@parallels.com>
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 <xemul@parallels•com>
---
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;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-30 4:34 [PATCH 1/2] net: Allow to create links with given ifindex Pavel Emelyanov
2012-07-30 4:36 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2012-07-30 10:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-30 10:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-31 9:03 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-07-31 11:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-31 13:30 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-02 10:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-02 11:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-02 23:37 ` David Miller
2012-08-02 23:26 ` David Miller
2012-08-03 5:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-03 5:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-03 23:56 ` David Miller
2012-08-04 7:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-04 8:25 ` David Miller
2012-07-30 11:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-30 12:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-07-31 9:06 ` Pavel Emelyanov
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