netdev - Re: Bug handling devices with weird names

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Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:41:42 +0200
From:	Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage@...hia.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug handling devices with weird names

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:19, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> Update user land tools ?
>
> No problem here :
>
> # ip link add name foo: type dummy
> # ip link list foo:
> 14: foo:: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
>    link/ether e6:48:a9:57:d4:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> # ip link del foo:
> # ip -V
> ip utility, iproute2-ss100519

I am using the exact same version (from Debian), and I can also
reproduce it with fedora's iproute2-ss080725.
The kernels are 2.6.35-rc4 and 2.6.27, respectively.. Maybe your
version of iprout is patched as to not use ioctl?



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Martín Ferrari
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