netdev - Re: [net v3] veth: advertise peer link once both links are tied together

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Message-ID: <m3fusyg2pi.fsf@neo.luffy.cx>
Date:	Tue, 31 May 2016 08:29:29 +0200
From:	Vincent Bernat <vincent@...nat.im>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Vijay Pandurangan <vijayp@...ayp.ca>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net v3] veth: advertise peer link once both links are tied together

 ❦ 30 mai 2016 18:27 CEST, Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> :

>>> +
>>> +	rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, peer, IFF_SLAVE, GFP_KERNEL);
>> 
>> Maybe ~0U would be better than hijacking IFF_SLAVE?
> IFF_SLAVE is wrong. It's a flag here, that will be put in the ifi_change field
> not an attribute number.

There are some use of IFF_SLAVE (in bonding/bond_main.c). But, I'll
update the patch nonetheless.
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