netdev - Re: iproute2: no error message when link up command fails.

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:59:45 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	stephen.hemminger@...tta.com, 489340@...s.debian.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: iproute2: no error message when link up command fails.

On 17-07-2008 11:26, Patrick McHardy wrote:
...
> rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()
> 
> Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> reported that

+ Johannes Berg reported that

> unlike ifconfig,
> iproute doesn't report an error when setting an interface up fails.
> 
> Propagate the return value from dev_change_flags() to fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Jarek P.
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