net: rtnetlink: add possibility to use alternative names as message handle

Extend the basic rtnetlink commands to use alternative interface names
as a handle instead of ifindex and ifname.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jiri Pirko 2019-09-30 11:48:20 +02:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit 76c9ac0ee8