From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:57:02 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090301.205702.81302378.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090301204731.40ce346a@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:47:31 -0800
> Why is interface created through netlink named 'vlan0' and
> interface created through old vconfig called 'ethX.YY'.
> Seems like the interface should be consistent.
I think the netlink scheme is saner, and the idea is to
transition people over to that.
We can't change what vconfig uses, so what Patrick decided
to do is pretty sane if you ask me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-02 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 4:47 Vlan interface nuisance Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 4:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-03-02 5:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 5:28 ` David Miller
2009-03-02 9:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 6:50 ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-02 7:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 7:39 ` Herbert Xu
2009-03-02 9:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 9:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-02 17:20 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-02 18:51 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 18:56 ` Ben Greear
2009-03-02 19:06 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 19:23 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-03-02 20:24 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 21:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 19:36 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-03-02 20:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 21:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 21:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 21:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 22:30 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-02 23:35 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-03 6:41 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-03-03 6:53 ` Ben Greear
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