netdev - Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

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Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:29:58 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Milan Kocian <milon@...cz>
CC:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

Milan Kocian wrote:
> It is a pity that vlan id will not be in interface name. It was 
> comfortable to have vlan id in interface name. 
> Any reason for changing naming schema ?

What has changed is that the kernel doesn't support the
naming policies for the netlink interface. I don't see any
need for that, you can simply do:

ip add link eth0 name eth0.1000 type vlan id 1000

or choose whatever different scheme you like.
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