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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2-2.6.23-rc3
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:56:19 +0100
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On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:12:41 +0200
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:

> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Why does this add a new ip subcommand instead and uses genetlink
> >>>> instead of the rtnl_link API, which was introduced exactly for
> >>>> this stuff?
> >>>>
> >>> Hm... It does not, it just adds a parser for veth commands that
> >>> generic layer isn't aware of.
> >>
> >> It does, you have "ip veth add", "ip veth del", ...
> >>
> >> Didn't you already sent a patch that used "ip link add ..."?
> > 
> > The patch I sent last used "ip link add" and "ip link del".
> > The link_veth.c file only parses all the extra arguments.
> 
> 
> Thats what I thought. I seems Stephen applied an old version of
> the patch that still uses genetlink.
> 

Send me a new one, and I'll revert the old one.