From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:54:38 +0100 Message-ID: <49AC559E.80101@trash.net> References: <20090301204731.40ce346a@nehalam> <20090302172057.GA23247@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <49AC2A9C.5090303@gmail.com> <49AC545E.3090708@trash.net> <20090302135101.1165f117@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jarek Poplawski , Lennart Sorensen , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:55247 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753087AbZCBVyn (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:54:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090302135101.1165f117@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:49:18 +0100 > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Jarek Poplawski wrote: >>> Lennart Sorensen wrote, On 03/02/2009 06:20 PM: >>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:47:31PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>>>> Why is interface created through netlink named 'vlan0' and >>>>> interface created through old vconfig called 'ethX.YY'. >>>>> Seems like the interface should be consistent. >>>> That does seem silly. >>>> >>>> ethX.YYYY told you which physical interface and which vlan number it was. >>>> >>>> vlan0 tells you nothing useful. >>> >>> >>> Even if you have only one ethX? >> The binding is displayed when listing interfaces. This hole >> argument is silly, if you want a particular name, just specify >> it. The current naming schemes are entirely based on information >> that you have to specify anyways. > > I overlooked the obvious: > ip li add link eth1 name eth1.44 type vlan id 44 > > Setting the name overrides. Finally someone realizes it :) As stated before, there is room for improvement, but please no selectable naming schemes when userspace is ulitimatively responsible anyways :)