[PATCH iproute2-next] ipaddress: remove 'label' compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases

[maxime.deroucy@gmail.com]

As Linux-2.0 is getting old and systemd allows non Linux-2.0 compatible
aliases to be set, I think iproute2 should be able to manage such
aliases.
---
 ip/ipaddress.c           | 16 ----------------
 man/man8/ip-address.8.in |  3 ---
 2 files changed, 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ip/ipaddress.c b/ip/ipaddress.c
index 739b0b9c..a80996ef 100644
--- a/ip/ipaddress.c
+++ b/ip/ipaddress.c
@@ -2349,16 +2349,6 @@ static bool ipaddr_is_multicast(inet_prefix *a)
                return false;
 }
 
-static bool is_valid_label(const char *dev, const char *label)
-{
-       size_t len = strlen(dev);
-
-       if (strncmp(label, dev, len) != 0)
-               return false;
-
-       return label[len] == '\0' || label[len] == ':';
-}
-
 static int ipaddr_modify(int cmd, int flags, int argc, char **argv)
 {
        struct {
@@ -2501,12 +2491,6 @@ static int ipaddr_modify(int cmd, int flags, int
argc, char **argv)
                fprintf(stderr, "Not enough information: \"dev\"
argument is required.\n");
                return -1;
        }
-       if (l && !is_valid_label(d, l)) {
-               fprintf(stderr,
-                       "\"label\" (%s) must match \"dev\" (%s) or be
prefixed by \"dev\" with a colon.\n",
-                       l, d);
-               return -1;
-       }
 
        if (peer_len == 0 && local_len) {
                if (cmd == RTM_DELADDR && lcl.family == AF_INET &&
!(lcl.flags & PREFIXLEN_SPECIFIED)) {
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in
index a614ac64..1846252d 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-address.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-address.8.in
@@ -195,9 +195,6 @@ is derived by setting/resetting the host bits of
the interface prefix.
 .TP
 .BI label " LABEL"
 Each address may be tagged with a label string.
-In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases,
-this string must coincide with the name of the device or must be
prefixed
-with the device name followed by colon.
 The maximum allowed total length of label is 15 characters.
 
 .TP