From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Emelyanov Subject: [PATCH 3/5] veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:31:35 +0400 Message-ID: <501F9D07.9040104@parallels.com> References: <501F9CAF.3030605@parallels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Miller , Eric Dumazet , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Netdev List Return-path: Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.232.25]:37147 "EHLO relay.sw.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754125Ab2HFKcJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2012 06:32:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <501F9CAF.3030605@parallels.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The ifinfomsg is in there (thanks kaber@ for foreseeing this long time ago), so take the given ifidex and register netdev with it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov --- drivers/net/veth.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c index 5852361..496c026 100644 --- a/drivers/net/veth.c +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c @@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, if (tbp[IFLA_ADDRESS] == NULL) eth_hw_addr_random(peer); + if (ifmp) + peer->ifindex = ifmp->ifi_index; + err = register_netdevice(peer); put_net(net); net = NULL; -- 1.7.6.5