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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Milan Kocian <milon@wq.cz>
Cc: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:29:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB6456.2040601@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081007132800.GH4606@ntm.vs.lam.cz>

Milan Kocian wrote:
> It is a pity that vlan id will not be in interface name. It was 
> comfortable to have vlan id in interface name. 
> Any reason for changing naming schema ?

What has changed is that the kernel doesn't support the
naming policies for the netlink interface. I don't see any
need for that, you can simply do:

ip add link eth0 name eth0.1000 type vlan id 1000

or choose whatever different scheme you like.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-06 18:24 Could you make vconfig less stupid? Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-06 22:26 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07  2:32   ` Ben Greear
2008-10-07 11:31     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 12:20       ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-10-07 12:24         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 12:48         ` Milan Kocian
2008-10-07 12:49           ` Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-10-07 12:56             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 13:16               ` Martin Josefsson
2008-10-07 13:54                 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 13:57                 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-10-07 13:28               ` Milan Kocian
2008-10-07 13:29                 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-10-07 14:06                 ` Stephen Hemminger

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