keep "kernel name" for each netdev
authorYAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:55 +0000 (17:49 +0900)
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Thu, 23 May 2013 03:51:22 +0000 (20:51 -0700)
commit87ad1c07628558ba25083fefc8141b930fb6f96c
treec52029ea2a6897e0a7ce7245241f8f1459623a2f
parent666afb55e84e9118812de81a75655ec9567b7a5b
keep "kernel name" for each netdev

where interface renaming is not supported (NetBSD), remember both of
our netdev name and the correspoinding kernel name separately.
the latter is necessary to talk with kernel using interface names.
eg. ifioctls, bpf

XXX there should be a proper way to query kernel name.
Ben Pfaff suggested ovs-appctl but this patch doesn't implement it. (yet)

Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
lib/netdev-bsd.c