net: rtnetlink: add possibility to use alternative names as message handle
authorJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:48:20 +0000 (11:48 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 1 Oct 2019 21:47:19 +0000 (14:47 -0700)
commit76c9ac0ee878f6693d398d3a95ccaf85e1f597a6
treefaee1ce4914317d7ffa4260f996f5356559b82a4
parentcc6090e985d7d62bf2f1230c507d5fbe9899c9ec
net: rtnetlink: add possibility to use alternative names as message handle

Extend the basic rtnetlink commands to use alternative interface names
as a handle instead of ifindex and ifname.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/rtnetlink.c