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    net: introduce upper device lists · 9ff162a8
    Jiri Pirko authored
    This lists are supposed to serve for storing pointers to all upper devices.
    Eventually it will replace dev->master pointer which is used for
    bonding, bridge, team but it cannot be used for vlan, macvlan where
    there might be multiple upper present. In case the upper link is
    replacement for dev->master, it is marked with "master" flag.
    
    New upper device list resolves this limitation. Also, the information
    stored in lists is used for preventing looping setups like
    "bond->somethingelse->samebond"
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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