From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2-2.6.23-rc3 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:45:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20070822110804.30c2e803@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> <46D7E0A4.2010404@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Emelyanov Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:54163 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932269AbXHaJqh (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:46:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46D7E0A4.2010404@openvz.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 ..."? In any case this should be replaced by proper use of the rtnl_link stuff.