From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@wifirst.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, cong.wang@bytedance.com,
edumazet@google.com, Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
Brian Baboch <brian.baboch@wifirst.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] rtnetlink: enable alt_ifname for setlink/newlink
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:09:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220401150908.356a0db3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250f3a0-9ed3-cfad-ba93-6b16cad5dcf5@wifirst.fr>
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 23:02:39 +0200 Florent Fourcot wrote:
> I don't really care about getting this into stable, so I will resubmit
> for net-next when opened.
> Should I drop "Fixes" tag?
Yup! No fixes tag if it's going in to net-next.
> Alternatives ifname feature never worked for setlink/newlink,
> but 76c9ac0ee878 claimed it was.
I wonder what the story was there. I think it "works" in that ip link
accept altnames, but IIUC that's because it does a get first and
resolves the ifindex.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-01 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-01 15:39 [PATCH net v2] rtnetlink: enable alt_ifname for setlink/newlink Florent Fourcot
2022-04-01 17:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-04-01 21:02 ` Florent Fourcot
2022-04-01 22:09 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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