From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [NET]: Device mtu/txqlen/ifmap via rtnetlink.
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:29:03 -0400
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Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> @@ -246,6 +268,30 @@
>  
>  	err = -EINVAL;
>  
> +	if (ifm->ifi_flags)
> +		dev_change_flags(dev, ifm->ifi_flags);
> +
> +	if (ida[IFLA_MAP - 1]) {
> +		if (!dev->set_config) {
> +			err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +
> +		if (!netif_device_present(dev)) {
> +			err = -ENODEV;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +		
> +		if (ida[IFLA_MAP - 1]->rta_len != RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(struct ifmap)))
> +			goto out;
> +		
> +		err = dev->set_config(dev, (struct ifmap *)
> +				RTA_DATA(ida[IFLA_MAP - 1]));
> +
> +		if (err)
> +			goto out;
> +	}
> +


Why are new calls to deprecated hook ->set_config() being added?

	Jeff