netdev - Re: displayed name changed in ip link show for bridge- and other interfaces

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Message-ID: <5585F005.6060408@hartkopp.net>
Date:	Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:58:13 +0200
From:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
CC:	Ulrich Gemkow <ulrich.gemkow@....uni-stuttgart.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: displayed name changed in ip link show for bridge- and other
 interfaces



On 06/17/2015 09:26 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 16/06/2015 19:35, Oliver Hartkopp a écrit :
>> On 15.06.2015 17:54, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:13:12 +0200
>>> Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Theoretically, virtual interfaces should advertise an IFLA_LINK to 0.
>>>> I don't know what is the best fix:
>>>>    - patching iproute2 to avoid this '@...E'
>>>>    - patching the kernel (see below).
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry this is an ABI change. The kernel has to go back
>>> to doing the same thing as before.
>>>
>>
>> Isn't this too late right now at 4.1-rc8 stage???
>>
>> At least the patch suggested for br_device.c at
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=143435960111768&w=2
>>
>> would been necessary in all networking drivers, right?
>>
>> I currently see this @NONE stuff with virtual CAN devices too.
> Another solution is to revert e1622baf54df ("dev: set iflink to 0 for virtual
> interfaces") and add a ndo_get_iflink handler which returns 0 for all virtual
> interfaces that had this IFLA_LINK set to 0 before the series.
> But it's not consistent between virtual interfaces.

I have no good suggestion, as I don't know if this makes a difference for the
ABI to finally make 'ip' omit the '@...E' output.

E.g. virtual CAN interfaces (vcan.c) now print this @NONE and they never have
a (physical?) link. So you probably have to deal with different virtual
interfaces anyway, right?

Regards,
Oliver

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