From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:53:40 -0800 Message-ID: <49ACD3F4.8080700@candelatech.com> References: <20090301204731.40ce346a@nehalam> <20090302172057.GA23247@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <49AC2A9C.5090303@gmail.com> <49AC545E.3090708@trash.net> <20090302223011.GA3388@ami.dom.local> <49AC6D24.1030605@trash.net> <20090303064149.GA4154@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Patrick McHardy , Lennart Sorensen , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jarek Poplawski Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:39868 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754005AbZCCGxv (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:53:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090303064149.GA4154@ff.dom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jarek Poplawski wrote: > Yes, very interesting arguments for another disussion... But if we're > talking about naming than you seem to ignore what Lennart, Ben, Denys > and probably Stephen said about their preferred way, and I think it > matters, because if they had problems with understanding this change > I can only imagine what "common users" would say without knowing all > this technical rationale (which IMHO is disputable too - names are > for people). > I like my own naming scheme, and I use it by specifying the name when creating the vlan using 'ip'. It would have been nice (IMO) to have the dev.vid naming be default from the beginning, but since it wasn't, it would cause more harm than good to change it now. So, I'm NOT arguing for changing the behaviour, though anything that can document the features of 'ip' better and make it more obvious you can set the name upon creation should help people... Ben > Jarek P. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com