On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 02:06 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Same way as the current RTM_SETLINK message works, but with creating > a new link in advance. It works fine in other subsystems, so I don't > see why it would in this case as well. Some subsystems do it in an > atomic fashion (network schedulers for example), some first create > the object, then configure it (network classifiers in the non-compat > cases). In the network device case I suppose the later should work > fine since a device needs to be set UP in a second action before > it really does anything.
Looking at br_netlink.c it seems that this sort of contradicts why generic netlink was done, now all the sudden everything that wants to create new links need its own netlink protocol number, no? johannes
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