From c9b22c9414752ac91c284867713bd9de0e06af80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Panattoni <apanatto@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:24:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] handle: enable VF info collection by default for pkgHandle

The package-level handle (pkgHandle) was initialized without
collectVFInfo, causing package-level functions like LinkByName to
no longer collect Virtual Function information. This restores the
previous default behavior.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Panattoni <apanatto@redhat.com>
---
 handle_linux.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/handle_linux.go b/handle_linux.go
index 358c175b9..5a521fc9a 100644
--- a/handle_linux.go
+++ b/handle_linux.go
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // Empty handle used by the netlink package methods
-var pkgHandle = &Handle{}
+var pkgHandle = &Handle{options: HandleOptions{collectVFInfo: true}}
 
 type HandleOptions struct {
 	lookupByDump  bool