From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Emelyanov Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2-2.6.23-rc3 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:42:58 +0400 Message-ID: <46D7FEC2.4010902@openvz.org> References: <20070822110804.30c2e803@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> <46D7E0A4.2010404@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.233.200]:45670 "EHLO relay.sw.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932419AbXHaLpv (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:45:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Patrick McHardy wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > >> Patrick McHardy wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>> >>>> There have been a lot of changes for 2.6.23, so here is a test release >>>> of iproute2 that should capture all the submitted patches >>>> >>>> Pavel Emelianov (1): >>>> Make ip utility veth driver aware >>> >>> 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. > In any case this should be replaced by proper use of the rtnl_link > stuff. >