• Rasmus Villemoes's avatar
    net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type · 31d929de
    Rasmus Villemoes authored
    When the name_assign_type attribute was introduced (commit
    685343fc, "net: add name_assign_type netdev attribute"), the
    loopback device was explicitly mentioned as one which would make use
    of NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE:
    
        The name_assign_type attribute gives hints where the interface name of a
        given net-device comes from. These values are currently defined:
    ...
          NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE:
            The ifname has been assigned by the kernel in a predictable way
            that is guaranteed to avoid reuse and always be the same for a
            given device. Examples include statically created devices like
            the loopback device [...]
    
    Switch to that so that reading /sys/class/net/lo/name_assign_type
    produces something sensible instead of returning -EINVAL.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    31d929de
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