Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag

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On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 20:41 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:

> Exactly broken by design.

Design of what ? Do you have a pointer to a document about this
'design' ?

> 
> IFA_LINK is an ifindex, ifindex is per-netns. macvlan should not use IFA_LINK.

When this was 'designed', ifindex were not per netns.

Apparently nobody spotted this when ifindexes become per netns.

I am sure we can find a solution, keeping this very useful
functionality.

BTW, are Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and Cong Wang
<xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> different persons ?



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