From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:15:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49AB8784.609@vyatta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090302065007.GA16974@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
>
>> Subject: vlan: names should be consistent
>>
>> Vlan's created via netlink should be the same as vlan's created
>> via older interface. This patches changes is to be consistent.
>>
>> One could argue this is an API change (it changes behaviour of netlink
>> interface), but I argue this was a design bug when the netlink interface
>> to VLAN was added.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>>
>
> I don't see the point of this. The new interface is available
> through ip(8) only, vconfig remains unchanged. So the user is
> completely aware that the name may change as he's using a new
> command.
>
> In any case, ip(8) allows you to set the name to whatever you
> want at creation time. So for those nostalgics you can still
> use ethX.Y through ip.
>
> Cheers,
>
Yes but their is no indication as to which interface was just created.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-02 7:15 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
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 [this message]
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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