From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid? Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:06:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20081007160603.0db7e967@speedy> References: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> <200810071520.56610.denys@visp.net.lb> <20081007124820.GG4606@ntm.vs.lam.cz> <200810071549.16647.denys@visp.net.lb> <48EB5C63.60501@trash.net> <20081007132800.GH4606@ntm.vs.lam.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Patrick McHardy , Denys Fedoryshchenko , Ben Greear , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Milan Kocian Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:53417 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753397AbYJGOGK (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:06:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081007132800.GH4606@ntm.vs.lam.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:28:02 +0200 Milan Kocian wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:56:03PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > >> On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Milan Kocian wrote: > >>> hello, > >>> > >>> btw. How can I see vlan id on device ? > >>> After: > >>> # ip l a l eth0 type vlan id 100 > >>> # ip a > >>> I see: > >>> > >>> 64: vlan0@eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN > >>> link/ether 00:16:d3:3e:4e:b9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > >>> > >>> No vlan id in interface name ? > >>> > >>> # ip -V > >>> ip utility, iproute2-ss080725 > >>> > >>> regards, > >> Use flag -d > >> rich ip # ./ip -d l show dev vlan0 > >> 31: vlan0@eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN > >> link/ether 00:1e:8c:89:78:af brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > >> vlan id 100 > > > > It would be better to have -d as a default, I was afraid of breaking > > scripts of people sedding and awking around with the iproute output. > > > > Stephen should make this call, I'm not sure what guarantees he wants > > to provide. I just remembered one of my previous jobs where a large > > number of scripts had to be changed because iproute started using > > lower case letters in some spots, and I had to do it :) > > Thanks for quick answer. > Yes, -d will be fine. > 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 ? > > regards, > > -- > Milan Kocian It should always show type information (ie vlan etc). Scripts that can't take extra lines might break even with -d since they might have been using that already. As long as new information appears after old, it should be okay.