From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:19:56 -0600
> > I was getting strange kernel crashes when attempting to > create veth devices when I did not specify a peer argument > to /bin/ip. > > So this patch defaults peer_tb to all zeros and doesn't attempt to > reuse the netlink attributes for the primary link to create the > secondary link and now I can't reproduce the failures. > > Given that some of the most interesting netlink attributes to specify > like a mac address or a network device name seem are generally > the wrong thing to do this seems like the right approach. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This looks mostly fine, can someone else who knows veth a bit review this as well? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
