Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3 V1] rtnetlink: enable IFLA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_{DEL,SET}LINK

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jan 29 2018 - 11:32:14 EST


From: Christian Brauner <christianvanbrauner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:26:31 +0100

> Based on the previous discussion this enables passing a IFLA_IF_NETNSID
> property along with RTM_SETLINK and RTM_DELLINK requests. The patch for
> RTM_NEWLINK will be sent out in a separate patch since there are more
> corner-cases to think about.
...
> Changelog 2018-01-24:
> * Preserve old behavior and report -ENODEV when either ifindex or ifname is
> provided and IFLA_GROUP is set. Spotted by Wolfgang Bumiller.

Series applied, and this seems to be consistent with what Jiri envisioned
in commit 79e1ad148c84 ("rtnetlink: use netnsid to query interface")

Thank you.