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Authored by melifaro on May 19 2023, 10:22 AM.
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Currently carp implementation peeks into the opaque 'afp->af_addreq' buffer, assumes it knows the af-specific layout and assigns vhid directly.
Simplify the code and remove abstraction leak by introducing per-afp callback for setting vhid.
This change is a pre-requisite to set addresses via Netlink, as Netlink implementiation uses different structure layout.

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