On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 16:50, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand how this would work- are we going to > > pin down the ifindex for some subset of interfaces? > > I'm not sure what your idea is, but I guess we might mean the same > thing: > > What I have in mind is that the user can supply a list of (ifname -> > ifindex) entries via a sysfs/procfs interface and if such a list is > present, the kernel will search the list for every ifname which is > registered and check if there is an entry. If there is, the ifindex > for this entry is used. If there is no entry found for the given > ifname, the usual algorithm is used (therefore inherently providing > backward compatibility).
Sorry to ask because I don't like this feature at all. There was a lot of work on stable interface names. Why do you need stable ifindexes, which were never meant to be stable for a longer amount of time? Bye, Hannes -- 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
