NETDEV_SET_MASTER

Section: Network device support (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

netdev_set_master - set up master/slave pair  

SYNOPSIS

int netdev_set_master(struct net_device * slave, struct net_device * master);
 

ARGUMENTS

slave

slave device

master

new master device
 

DESCRIPTION

Changes the master device of the slave. Pass NULL to break the bonding. The caller must hold the RTNL semaphore. On a failure a negative errno code is returned. On success the reference counts are adjusted, RTM_NEWLINK is sent to the routing socket and the function returns zero.  

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