netdev - Re: Vlan interface nuisance

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Message-ID: <20090302065007.GA16974@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:50:07 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: vlan: names should be consistent
> 
> Vlan's created via netlink should be the same as vlan's created
> via older interface. This patches changes is to be consistent.
> 
> One could argue this is an API change (it changes behaviour of netlink
> interface), but I argue this was a design bug when the netlink interface
> to VLAN was added.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

I don't see the point of this.  The new interface is available
through ip(8) only, vconfig remains unchanged.  So the user is
completely aware that the name may change as he's using a new
command.

In any case, ip(8) allows you to set the name to whatever you
want at creation time.  So for those nostalgics you can still
use ethX.Y through ip.

Cheers,
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