On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 07:27:48AM -0700, David Ahern wrote: > On 1/18/19 7:24 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > > > There is no other way to identify a vft device rather than this > > string? The only l3mdev that exists if vrf, right? > > ipvlan uses some of the hooks. > > > > > If there is no other alternative, we can just place this in the tree, > > but probably it would be better to have a numeric way to identify a > > vrf device? > > IFF_L3MDEV_MASTER and IFF_L3MDEV_SLAVE are used via netif_is_l3_master > and netif_is_l3_slave in all of the code. This was done because of > requests to not bleed 'vrf' all over core kernel code. Thanks for explaining. So no other way than this string to identify vrf device, right?
