On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:06:59 +0100
Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch allows modification of link attributes by the interface name,
> avoids the requirement of translating a name to an ifindex first, and
> provides better atomicity to userspace. It works by setting the ifindex
> to a negative number and provide the interface name via the IFLA_IFNAME
> TLV and let the kernel lookup the device by name instead of ifindex. Changing
> the interface name will not work using this method because IFLA_IFNAME also
> transports the new interface name. The patch also fixes a possible source for
> bugs if IFNAMSIZ is ever changed to a number not aligned to RTA_ALIGNTO.
Looks good, applied to my 2.6.11 pending tree.
Thanks.
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