On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:44:08 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > While the documentation doesn't say exactly what kind of relationship > iflink should represent, until a45253, only lower devices were > advertised this way. While veth cannot have a lower device, using iflink > to advertise the peer may create infinite loops in programs using iflink > to discover device topology. > > Instead of advertising the peer link with iflink, a symbolic link "peer" > is added to each peer.
By removing veth_get_iflink, you're also stopping IFLA_LINK being advertised in netlink messages, which consequently makes impossible to reliably match veth peers across name spaces again. This would be a huge step backwards. Jiri -- Jiri Benc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
