❦ 19 août 2015 14:38 +0200, Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com> :
>> That's the main goal of this patch: advertising the peer link as
>> IFLA_LINK attribute triggers an infinite loop in userland software when
>> they follow iflink to discover network devices topology. iflink has
>> always been the index of a lower device. If a sysfs symbolic link is not
>> good enough, I can propose a new IFLA_PEER attribute instead.
>
> This would cause regression and break applications for those of us who
> started relying on the netnsid feature to match interfaces across net
> name spaces.
Yes. Unfortunately.
> This is tough. If you're going to do such thing, you would at least
> need to also introduce IFLA_PEER_NETNSID.
Yes I can.
In my opinion, the change of semantics of IFLA_LINK is a break of
API. However, I can live with it since it's easy to workaround it. It
just seemed easier to start the discussion with a patch.
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