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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5 (resend)] net: Allow to create links with given
 ifindex
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:14:26 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 15:01 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Currently the RTM_NEWLINK results in -EOPNOTSUPP if the ifinfomsg->ifi_index
> is not zero. I propose to allow requesting ifindices on link creation. This
> is required by the checkpoint-restore to correctly restore a net namespace
> (i.e. -- a container).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>