2020-10-01, 14:25:38 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 09:59:24 +0200
> Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
>
> > In a lot of places, we use this kind of comparison to detect if a
> > device has a lower link:
> >
> > dev->ifindex != dev_get_iflink(dev)
>
>
> Since this is a common ope
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 09:59:24 +0200
Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> In a lot of places, we use this kind of comparison to detect if a
> device has a lower link:
>
> dev->ifindex != dev_get_iflink(dev)
Since this is a common operation, it would be good to add a new
helper function in netdevice.h
In
In a lot of places, we use this kind of comparison to detect if a
device has a lower link:
dev->ifindex != dev_get_iflink(dev)
This seems to be a leftover of the pre-netns days, when the ifindex
was unique over the whole system. Nowadays, with network namespaces,
it's very easy to create a devi
