netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5 (resend)] net: Allow to create links with given ifindex

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Message-ID: <1344345266.28967.91.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:14:26 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5 (resend)] net: Allow to create links with given
 ifindex

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 15:01 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> 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@...allels.com>

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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