eeb85a14ee
Currently, we can specify ifindex on link creation. This change allows to specify ifindex when a device is moved to another network namespace. Even now, a device ifindex can be changed if there is another device with the same ifindex in the target namespace. So this change doesn't introduce completely new behavior, it adds more control to the process. CRIU users want to restore containers with pre-created network devices. A user will provide network devices and instructions where they have to be restored, then CRIU will restore network namespaces and move devices into them. The problem is that devices have to be restored with the same indexes that they have before C/R. Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander.mikhalitsyn@virtuozzo.com> Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.