Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Keep batadv netdev when hardif disappears

[Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>]

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On Sunday, July 10, 2016 15:47:57 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Switch-like virtual interfaces like bridge or openvswitch don't destroy
> itself when all their attached netdevices dissappear. Instead they only
> remove the link to the unregistered device and keep working until they get
> removed manually.
> 
> This has the benefit that all configurations for this interfaces are kept
> and daemons reacting to rtnl events can just add new slave interfaces
> without going through the complete configuration of the switch-like
> netdevice.
> 
> Handling unregister events of client devices similar in batman-adv allows
> users to drop their current workaround of dummy netdevices attached to
> batman-adv soft-interfaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
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>  net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied in revision be7cd9d.

Thanks,
Marek

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