Re: ip -details link fails

[Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>]

On 28.05.2015 11:48, Ssagarr Patil wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
>>
>> On 05/27/2015 07:24 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>>>> # ip -details link show wlan0
>>>> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
>>>> Cannot send link get request: Invalid argument
>>>
>>> The fact that your 'ip' tool doesn't work with wlan0 too your problem is
>>> probably not CAN related.
>>
>> BTW: the busybox version of ip doesn't talk can.
>>
> I am not using the ip from the busybox,
> I am using the release version from [1] (# ip -V
> ip utility, iproute2-ss150413)
>

Looks good.

>
> # ip -details link show can0
> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
> Cannot send link get request: Invalid argument
> #
>


>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/
>
> Or is that I am missing something in the kernel defconfig do I need to enable some via
> doing menuconfig to get it working

Hm.

Can you post the output of

	strace ip -details link show can0

Maybe there"s really something missing in the kernel config to run the netlink 
configuration.

Regards,
Oliver