netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] ipaddress: remove 'label' compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases

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Date:   Thu, 3 Mar 2022 14:37:24 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     maxime.deroucy@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] ipaddress: remove 'label' compatibility
 with Linux-2.0 net aliases

On Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:14:55 +0100
maxime.deroucy@...il.com wrote:

> As Linux-2.0 is getting old and systemd allows non Linux-2.0 compatible
> aliases to be set, I think iproute2 should be able to manage such
> aliases.
> ---
>  ip/ipaddress.c           | 16 ----------------
>  man/man8/ip-address.8.in |  3 ---
>  2 files changed, 19 deletions(-)

Agree that iproute2 shouldn't enforce restrictions that kernel does not.