Re: [PATCH 4/8] bonding: Detect virtual bonding devices and create an ethernet device

[Thomas Graf <tgraf redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 16:51 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> However, the reason I dup in nm_system_get_link_type() is because due to
> the returning of the link reference there is a theoretical chance that
> the module which is behind the link type will be unloaded. libnl
> currently does not do so but that might happen in the future.
> 
> It might be better to compare the return type against a list of known
> link types by NM and return a pointer to a type string owned by NM
> memory. Thoughts?

Actually, I just changed this to returning an enum thus following your
initial suggestion.