commit 9c7dafbfab1554705f85523fead578aa1a3d338c
author Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Wed Aug 08 21:52:46 2012 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Thu Aug 09 16:18:06 2012 -0700
tree 462dc2a2b854b3c7ad80a351a0ef780b790bc109
parent b14f243a42c7aa43de71f878641acd003f223022

net: Allow to create links with given ifindex

Currently the RTM_NEWLINK results in -EOPNOTSUPP if the ifinfomsg->ifi_index
is not zero. I propose to allow requesting ifindices on link creation. This
is required by the checkpoint-restore to correctly restore a net namespace
(i.e. -- a container).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>