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Message-ID: <f6bd73fe-9b60-6741-8a6d-c93f6ee64a40@hartkopp.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 22:10:42 +0200
From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: enable interface alias removal via rtnl
On 10/06/2017 08:18 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 10/5/17 4:19 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of
>> the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute
>> length must be 0 (see dev_set_alias()).
>
> why not add a check in dev_set_alias that if len is 1 and the 1
> character is '\0' it means remove the alias?
Yes. That looks indeed better than changing NLA_STRING to NLA_BINARY
which does not really hit the point.
Nicolas, can you send an updated patch picking up David's suggestion?
Tnx & best regards,
Oliver
>
>>
>> Let's define the type to NLA_BINARY, so that the alias can be removed.
>
> that changes the uapi
>
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