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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:56:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73y7d5zunp.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39C363776A4E8C4A94691D2BD9D1C9A1029EDBE5@XCH-NW-7V2.nw.nos.boeing.com> (Fred L. Templin's message of "Tue\, 6 Nov 2007 17\:16\:11 -0800")

"Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com> writes:
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_IPV6_ISATAP)
> +	/* ISATAP (RFC4214) - router address in daddr */
> +	if (!strncmp(parms->name, "isatap", 6)) {

Modern distributions tend to have daemons to automatically rename
network interfaces using SIOCSIFNAME. Not sure they would touch
isatap*, but they or someone else might. I would be likely safer to
not base your user interface on the name only, but use a flag
or number somewhere else.

-Andi


      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-10 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07  1:16 [PATCH 04/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support Templin, Fred L
2007-11-07 16:16 ` Templin, Fred L
2007-11-07 18:36 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-11-07 18:41   ` Templin, Fred L
2007-11-07 18:45     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-07 19:12       ` Templin, Fred L
2007-11-08 14:26         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-11-08 21:01           ` Templin, Fred L
2007-11-08 23:30             ` David Miller
2007-11-10 20:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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