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.