[PATCH 4.1 117/159] Revert "dev: set iflink to 0 for virtual interfaces"

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-09-26T21:17:58Z

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

[ Upstream commit 95ec655bc465ccb2a3329d4aff9a45e3c8188db5 ]

This reverts commit e1622baf54df8cc958bf29d71de5ad545ea7d93c.

The side effect of this commit is to add a '@NONE' after each virtual
interface name with a 'ip link'. It may break existing scripts.

Reported-by: Olivier Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/core/dev.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -672,10 +672,6 @@ int dev_get_iflink(const struct net_devi
if (dev->netdev_ops && dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_iflink)
return dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_iflink(dev);

- /* If dev->rtnl_link_ops is set, it's a virtual interface. */
- if (dev->rtnl_link_ops)
- return 0;
-
return dev->ifindex;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_iflink);