Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I know there are several data structures internal to the kernel that >> are indexed by ifindex, and not struct net_device *. There is the >> iflink field in struct net_device. We need a way to refer to network >> devices in other namespaces in rtnetlink in an unambiguous way. I >> don't see any real problems with a global ifindex assignment until >> we start migrating applications. >> >> So please hold off on this until the kernel has been audited and >> we have removed all of the uses of ifindex that assume ifindex is >> global, that we can find. > > Ok.
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