From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:11:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E1BEEE.9050000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040629093234.459c46c6@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The bridge utilities depends on being able to do if_indextoname and
> if_nametoindex for interfaces that aren't active to IP. Other non-IP
> usage probably does as well.
This is not changed by DaveM's patch. All the patch does is to cause
SIOCGIFCONF to report all interfaces SIOCGIFINDEX knows about as well.
So now if_indextoname() succeeds only if_indexname() also returns the
interface name, making the three interfaces consistent.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-29 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-29 4:06 inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-29 8:26 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-29 16:22 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-29 19:09 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-29 21:19 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-30 4:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-30 5:10 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-06-30 5:13 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-30 7:51 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-06-30 19:59 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-29 16:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-06-29 19:11 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
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