NETDEV_SET_MASTER

Section: (9)
Updated: 17 July 2003
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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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