netdev_set_master(9)

netdev_set_master9

Set up master pointer

Usage

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

Arguments

slave

slave device

master

new master device

Overview

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 and the function returns zero.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7

From linux-manual-3.2 3.2.78-1 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.