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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
	Ulrich Gemkow <ulrich.gemkow@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: displayed name changed in ip link show for bridge- and other interfaces
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:54:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150615085410.6628b5bb@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557E9728.7080208@6wind.com>

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:13:12 +0200
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:

> Theoretically, virtual interfaces should advertise an IFLA_LINK to 0.
> I don't know what is the best fix:
>   - patching iproute2 to avoid this '@NONE'
>   - patching the kernel (see below).


Sorry this is an ABI change. The kernel has to go back
to doing the same thing as before.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-15 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-14 10:00 displayed name changed in ip link show for bridge- and other interfaces Ulrich Gemkow
2015-06-14 18:50 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-14 19:12   ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-15  7:23     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-15  9:13       ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-15 15:54         ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-06-16 17:35           ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-16 17:47             ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-17  7:26             ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-20 22:58               ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-23 12:48                 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-23 17:21                   ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-07-06 15:25                     ` [PATCH net] Revert "dev: set iflink to 0 for virtual interfaces" Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-06 16:38                       ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-07-07  7:44                         ` [PATCH net v2] " Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-08 22:52                       ` [PATCH net] " David Miller

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