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Date:   Fri, 1 Apr 2022 15:09:08 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Florent Fourcot <florent.fourcot@...irst.fr>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, cong.wang@...edance.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Brian Baboch <brian.baboch@...irst.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] rtnetlink: enable alt_ifname for setlink/newlink

On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 23:02:39 +0200 Florent Fourcot wrote:
> I don't really care about getting this into stable, so I will resubmit 
> for net-next when opened.
> Should I drop "Fixes" tag?

Yup! No fixes tag if it's going in to net-next.

> Alternatives ifname feature never worked for setlink/newlink,
> but 76c9ac0ee878 claimed it was.

I wonder what the story was there. I think it "works" in that ip link
accept altnames, but IIUC that's because it does a get first and
resolves the ifindex.