Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching

From: Octavian Purdila <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:06:03 +0200

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Friday 10 December 2010, 19:42:39

> Le vendredi 10 décembre 2010 à 19:32 +0200, Octavian Purdila a écrit :
> > Would allowing escaping it fix the issue? Like:
> > 
> > ip link add link bond0 "vlan\*" txqueuelen 100 type vlan id 999
> 
> Well, same compat problem ;)
> 
> $ ip link add link bond0 "vlan\*199" type vlan id 199
> $ ifconfig "vlan\*199"

:) Then use a special dev keyword like dev* ?

$ ip link set dev* dummy set

Or use a new flag to allow expansion?

$ ip -e link set dev dummy* set

Thanks,
tavi