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From: Atzm Watanabe <atzm@stratosphere.co.jp>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2 v2] iplink: do not require assigning negative ifindex at link creation
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:47:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx3o5ojd.wl%atzm@stratosphere.co.jp> (raw)

Since commit 3c682146aeff, iplink requires assigning negative
ifindex (-1) to the kernel when creating interface without
specifying index.

v2: checking whether index is -1, suggested by Cong Wang.

Cc: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Atzm Watanabe <atzm@stratosphere.co.jp>
---
 ip/iplink.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index cb9c870..5dd6060 100644
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -689,7 +689,10 @@ static int iplink_modify(int cmd, unsigned int flags, int argc, char **argv)
 			addattr_l(&req.n, sizeof(req), IFLA_LINK, &ifindex, 4);
 		}
 
-		req.i.ifi_index = index;
+		if (index == -1)
+			req.i.ifi_index = 0;
+		else
+			req.i.ifi_index = index;
 	}
 
 	if (name) {
-- 
1.8.1.5

             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-01  5:47 Atzm Watanabe [this message]
2014-10-02  4:16 ` [PATCH iproute2 v2] iplink: do not require assigning negative ifindex at link creation Cong Wang

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