linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3 V1] rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:31:57 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     christianvanbrauner@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, dsahern@...il.com,
        fw@...len.de, daniel@...earbox.net, lucien.xin@...il.com,
        mschiffer@...verse-factory.net, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        vyasevich@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jbenc@...hat.com, w.bumiller@...xmox.com,
        nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, christian.brauner@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3 V1] rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for
 RTM_{DEL,SET}LINK

From: Christian Brauner <christianvanbrauner@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:26:31 +0100

> Based on the previous discussion this enables passing a IFLA_IF_NETNSID
> property along with RTM_SETLINK and RTM_DELLINK requests. The patch for
> RTM_NEWLINK will be sent out in a separate patch since there are more
> corner-cases to think about.
 ...
> Changelog 2018-01-24:
> * Preserve old behavior and report -ENODEV when either ifindex or ifname is
>   provided and IFLA_GROUP is set. Spotted by Wolfgang Bumiller.

Series applied, and this seems to be consistent with what Jiri envisioned
in commit 79e1ad148c84 ("rtnetlink: use netnsid to query interface")

Thank you.