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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2014-07-14 16:37:25 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-15 16:13:07 -0700
commit5517750f058edd111bcabe5e116056cc63b1f39c (patch)
tree200173a4d60aa65dc22ece6efa83b8e0f5dd2a29 /drivers/net/veth.c
parentc835a677331495cf137a7f8a023463afd9f032f8 (diff)
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net: rtnetlink - make create_link take name_assign_type
This passes down NET_NAME_USER (or NET_NAME_ENUM) to alloc_netdev(), for any device created over rtnetlink. v9: restore reverse-christmas-tree order of local variables Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/veth.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/veth.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index 9b945e6..8ad5965 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
struct veth_priv *priv;
char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
struct nlattr *peer_tb[IFLA_MAX + 1], **tbp;
+ unsigned char name_assign_type;
struct ifinfomsg *ifmp;
struct net *net;
@@ -362,16 +363,20 @@ static int veth_newlink(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
tbp = tb;
}
- if (tbp[IFLA_IFNAME])
+ if (tbp[IFLA_IFNAME]) {
nla_strlcpy(ifname, tbp[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ);
- else
+ name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER;
+ } else {
snprintf(ifname, IFNAMSIZ, DRV_NAME "%%d");
+ name_assign_type = NET_NAME_ENUM;
+ }
net = rtnl_link_get_net(src_net, tbp);
if (IS_ERR(net))
return PTR_ERR(net);
- peer = rtnl_create_link(net, ifname, &veth_link_ops, tbp);
+ peer = rtnl_create_link(net, ifname, name_assign_type,
+ &veth_link_ops, tbp);
if (IS_ERR(peer)) {
put_net(net);
return PTR_ERR(peer);
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