Commit 31d929de authored by Rasmus Villemoes's avatar Rasmus Villemoes Committed by David S. Miller

net: loopback: use NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE for name_assign_type

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>
parent df727d45
......@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static __net_init int loopback_net_init(struct net *net)
int err;
err = -ENOMEM;
dev = alloc_netdev(0, "lo", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, loopback_setup);
dev = alloc_netdev(0, "lo", NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE, loopback_setup);
if (!dev)
goto out;
......
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