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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:02:02 +0200 From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com> To: Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, xemul@...nvz.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] veth: remove unneeded ifname code from veth_newlink() Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:43:10AM CEST, mirqus@...il.com wrote: >2011/1/24 Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>: >> The code is not needed because tb[IFLA_IFNAME] is already >> processed in rtnl_newlink(). Remove this redundancy. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com> > >Hi. This patch broke creation of veth devices. Reverting it fixes the issue. > >Symptoms: > >icybox:~# ip link add type veth >RTNETLINK answers: File exists >icybox:~# ip link add type veth peer veth1 >icybox:~# ip addr >[...] >56: D: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 > link/ether e6:57:58:52:03:50 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >57: veth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 > link/ether c2:c2:a2:d5:d5:3a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff interesting, on net-next I get following with or without this patch applied: [root@f14 ~]# ip link add type veth peer veth1 Error: either "dev" is duplicate, or "veth1" is a garbage. Trying original F14 ip and currect git one gives the same > >Best Regards, >Michał Mirosław -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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