netdev - Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2-2.6.23-rc3

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:45:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2-2.6.23-rc3

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>
>>> There have been a lot of changes for 2.6.23, so here is a test release
>>> of iproute2 that should capture all the submitted patches
>>>
>>> Pavel Emelianov (1):
>>>      Make ip utility veth driver aware
>>
>>
>> Why does this add a new ip subcommand instead and uses genetlink
>> instead of the rtnl_link API, which was introduced exactly for
>> this stuff?
>>
>
> Hm... It does not, it just adds a parser for veth commands that
> generic layer isn't aware of.

It does, you have "ip veth add", "ip veth del", ...

Didn't you already sent a patch that used "ip link add ..."?

In any case this should be replaced by proper use of the rtnl_link
stuff.
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