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Message-ID: <BANLkTikUAGWhNnCrebQpVttorqVxfD6KWw@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:49:40 +0200 From: Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com> To: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.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() W dniu 22 kwietnia 2011 11:43 użytkownik Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com> napisał: > 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. > 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 Hmm. I was too quick. Reverting it fixes only first problem - "ip link add type veth" adds new veth pair now, but "ip link add type veth peer veth1" gives the same result as above. 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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