[systemd-devel] networkd: Loosing nic's driver set functionality

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> Hi Umut,
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Umut Tezduyar <umut at tezduyar.com> wrote:
>> Making RTM_GETLINK and RTM_SETLINK asynchronously is causing
>> RTM_SETLINK to remove the nic's functionality. In my case, I am
>> loosing IFF_MULTICAST after networkd sets the interface up.
>>
>> I am not sure if 5d4795f37229 can solve the problem but the only
>> documentation I found was stating ifi_change is reserved so I didn't
>> look in to it.

By the way, despite what the documentation makes one believe,
ifi_change works like this:
<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/core/rtnetlink.c#n648>.

Cheers,

Tom