Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/12] Remove iflink field from the net_device structure

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Apr 2015 17:06:59 +0200

> The first goal of this series was to advertise the veth peer via the IFLA_LINK
> attribute, but iflink was not ready for network namespaces.
> 
> The iflink of an interface should be set to its ifindex for a physical interface
> and to another value (0 if not relevant) for a virtual interface.
> This was not the case for some interfaces, like vxlan, bond, or bridge for
> example.
> There is also a risk, if the targeted interface moves to another netns, that the
> ifindex changes without updating corresponding iflink fields (eg. vlan).
> 
> Moving the management of this property into virtual interface drivers allows to
> better handle this last case because most of virtual interface drivers have a
> pointer to the link netdevice.
> Anyway, dev->iflink value was always a copy of some internal data of the virtual
> interface driver, thus let's use these internal data directly.
> 
> So, this series removes the iflink field and let the drivers manage it.
> Only the last patch was present in the v1, but I fully rework it.

I like this a lot, series applied, thanks Nicolas.