netdev - Re: [iproute2 PATCH] ip-link: do not support 'ip link add dev help'

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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 22:13:49 +0200
From:	Christoph Schulz <develop@...stov.de>
To:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Wilhelm Wijkander <lists@...e.se>,
	Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [iproute2 PATCH] ip-link: do not support 'ip link add dev
 help'

Hello!

Phil Sutter schrieb am Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:33:01 +0200:

> Commit 0532555 ('Support "ip link add help" for rtnl_link API') added a
> check for specified help parameter. Though due to the place where it has
> been added to, it is not possible anymore to force a given parameter to
> be interpreted as interface name by prefixing it with 'dev '. Fix this
> by forcing whatever follows 'dev' to be presumed as interface name.

I proposed a similar fix which also handles other ip commands, see  
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/519171/ . Does my patch also work  
for you?


Regards,

Christoph Schulz

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