From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid? Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:56:03 +0200 Message-ID: <48EB5C63.60501@trash.net> References: <20081006202401.14f03be2@speedy> <200810071520.56610.denys@visp.net.lb> <20081007124820.GG4606@ntm.vs.lam.cz> <200810071549.16647.denys@visp.net.lb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Milan Kocian , Ben Greear , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Denys Fedoryshchenko Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:44877 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751133AbYJGM4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:56:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200810071549.16647.denys@visp.net.lb> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 :)