From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:52:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: net: Allow to create links with given ifindex
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.7-rc1/fixes-cpufreq-signed~47^2~352
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c7dafbfab1554705f85523fead578aa1a3d338c;p=pandora-kernel.git

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>
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