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-rw-r--r--networking/libiproute/ll_map.c25
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/networking/libiproute/ll_map.c b/networking/libiproute/ll_map.c
index e2b85fc7b..af9eb46f7 100644
--- a/networking/libiproute/ll_map.c
+++ b/networking/libiproute/ll_map.c
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ unsigned FAST_FUNC ll_index_to_flags(int idx)
int FAST_FUNC xll_name_to_index(const char *name)
{
int ret = 0;
- int sock_fd;
/* caching is not warranted - no users which repeatedly call it */
#ifdef UNUSED
@@ -164,30 +163,8 @@ int FAST_FUNC xll_name_to_index(const char *name)
}
}
}
- /* We have not found the interface in our cache, but the kernel
- * may still know about it. One reason is that we may be using
- * module on-demand loading, which means that the kernel will
- * load the module and make the interface exist only when
- * we explicitely request it (check for dev_load() in net/core/dev.c).
- * I can think of other similar scenario, but they are less common...
- * Jean II */
#endif
-
- sock_fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
- if (sock_fd >= 0) {
- struct ifreq ifr;
- int tmp;
-
- strncpy_IFNAMSIZ(ifr.ifr_name, name);
- ifr.ifr_ifindex = -1;
- tmp = ioctl(sock_fd, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
- close(sock_fd);
- if (tmp >= 0)
- /* In theory, we should redump the interface list
- * to update our cache, this is left as an exercise
- * to the reader... Jean II */
- ret = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
- }
+ ret = if_nametoindex(name);
/* out:*/
if (ret <= 0)
bb_error_msg_and_die("can't find device '%s'", name);