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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Narendra K <Narendra_K@dell.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, matt_domsch@dell.com,
	charles_rose@dell.com, jordan_hargrave@dell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add firmware label support to iproute2
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:12:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100812141240.417949e2@s6510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100812173537.GA29784@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:35:37 -0500
Narendra K <Narendra_K@dell.com> wrote:

> +#ifndef LIBNETDEVNAME_PRESENT
>  			filter_dev = *argv;
> +#else
> +			if (netdev_alias_to_kernelname(*argv, kernel_name) < 0)
> +				show_firmware_alias_usage(*argv);
> +			filter_dev = kernel_name;
> +#endif
>  		}

like the kernel, I don't like ifdef cases in main code.
You should put in stub inline that returns appropriate error.

What happens if alias matches existing interface name?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-12 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-12 17:35 [PATCH] Add firmware label support to iproute2 Narendra K
2010-08-12 18:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-12 18:12 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-08-13 12:36   ` Narendra_K
2010-08-18 21:41     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-19 21:33       ` Matt Domsch
2010-08-19 21:53         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-19 22:18           ` Matt Domsch
2010-08-25 22:03           ` Matt Domsch
2010-08-25 22:16             ` Greg KH
2010-08-26 14:10               ` Matt Domsch
2010-08-26  0:16             ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-26 15:01               ` Matt Domsch
2010-08-26 15:17                 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-08-26 15:21                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-26 15:38                     ` Loke, Chetan
2010-08-27  7:54                       ` Kay Sievers
2010-08-26 16:38                 ` Matt Domsch

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