From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, thaller@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: try harder to not reuse ifindex when moving interfaces
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:25:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021172502.63220dbb@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151021.083214.534622235927401863.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:32:14 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote:
> As you say the apps are broken, so file a bug and have them fixed.
>
> The assumption is clearly invalid, so apps cannot make such an
> assumption.
Does it mean you would be okay with a patch that always allocates and
assigns a new ifindex in the target netns when interface is moved
between name spaces?
Jiri
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Jiri Benc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-16 11:07 [PATCH net] net: try harder to not reuse ifindex when moving interfaces Jiri Benc
2015-10-18 15:11 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-19 9:06 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-19 15:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-21 14:43 ` David Miller
2015-10-21 14:46 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-21 15:32 ` David Miller
2015-10-21 15:25 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2015-10-21 15:56 ` David Miller
2015-10-21 17:12 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-22 14:52 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-10-22 15:00 ` Jiri Benc
2015-10-22 15:10 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-22 15:20 ` Thomas Haller
2015-10-22 15:23 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-10-22 16:45 ` Thomas Graf
2015-10-22 17:21 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-10-22 18:56 ` Thomas Graf
2015-10-23 10:40 ` Thomas Haller
2015-10-22 15:21 ` Thomas Haller
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