netdev - Re: Vlan interface nuisance

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Message-ID: <49ABAAC7.6070806@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:45:43 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>,
	shemminger@...tta.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>   
>> Yes but their is no indication as to which interface was just created.
> 
> You should be able to set the name at creation time.
> 
> The default is only used if you didn't specify an explicit name.

Indeed. The kernel also sends notifications, so iproute could print
the generated name if none was specified.
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