From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail•com>,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>,
netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome•com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft•com>,
dcbw@redhat•com, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse•cz>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>,
parav@mellanox•com, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox•com>,
mlxsw <mlxsw@mellanox•com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add and delete alternative ifnames
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 08:40:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812084039.2fbd1f01@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190812083139.GA2428@nanopsycho>
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:31:39 +0200
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us> wrote:
> Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 03:37:26AM CEST, dsahern@gmail•com wrote:
> >On 8/11/19 7:34 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> >> On 8/10/19 12:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >>> Could you please write me an example message of add/remove?
> >>
> >> altnames are for existing netdevs, yes? existing netdevs have an id and
> >> a name - 2 existing references for identifying the existing netdev for
> >> which an altname will be added. Even using the altname as the main
> >> 'handle' for a setlink change, I see no reason why the GETLINK api can
> >> not take an the IFLA_ALT_IFNAME and return the full details of the
> >> device if the altname is unique.
> >>
> >> So, what do the new RTM commands give you that you can not do with
> >> RTM_*LINK?
> >>
> >
> >
> >To put this another way, the ALT_NAME is an attribute of an object - a
> >LINK. It is *not* a separate object which requires its own set of
> >commands for manipulating.
>
> Okay, again, could you provide example of a message to add/remove
> altname using existing setlink message? Thanks!
The existing IFALIAS takes an empty name to do deletion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-12 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-19 11:00 [patch net-next rfc 0/7] net: introduce alternative names for network interfaces Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:00 ` [patch net-next rfc 1/7] net: procfs: use index hashlist instead of name hashlist Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:00 ` [patch net-next rfc 2/7] net: introduce name_node struct to be used in hashlist Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 16:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-19 19:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 20:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-20 7:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-09-13 9:52 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-08 4:34 ` kbuild test robot
2019-07-19 11:00 ` [patch net-next rfc 3/7] net: rtnetlink: add commands to add and delete alternative ifnames Jiri Pirko
2019-07-20 3:58 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-20 7:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-09 4:11 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-09 6:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-09 15:40 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-09 15:46 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-10 13:46 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-10 15:50 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-10 19:39 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-11 22:10 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-12 15:21 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-12 15:43 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-09 16:14 ` David Ahern
2019-08-10 6:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-12 1:34 ` David Ahern
2019-08-12 1:37 ` David Ahern
2019-08-12 8:31 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-12 15:13 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-12 21:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-13 0:29 ` David Ahern
2019-08-13 6:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-13 6:51 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-12 15:40 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-08-12 16:23 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-13 6:55 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-12 16:01 ` David Ahern
2019-08-13 6:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-26 16:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-26 16:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-26 21:46 ` David Ahern
2019-08-26 22:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-08-26 22:18 ` David Miller
2019-08-26 22:24 ` David Ahern
2019-08-26 22:25 ` David Miller
2019-08-27 0:17 ` David Ahern
2019-08-27 5:09 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-27 7:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-27 8:22 ` David Miller
2019-08-27 9:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-27 15:14 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-28 7:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-29 4:36 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-29 5:26 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-30 14:35 ` Roopa Prabhu
2019-08-30 14:47 ` David Ahern
2019-08-30 17:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-30 14:49 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-30 17:03 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-09-12 11:59 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-09-13 8:21 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-09-13 14:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-27 4:55 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-08-27 13:43 ` David Ahern
2019-08-10 6:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:00 ` [patch net-next rfc 4/7] net: rtnetlink: put alternative names to getlink message Jiri Pirko
2019-07-20 3:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-20 7:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:00 ` [patch net-next rfc 5/7] net: rtnetlink: unify the code in __rtnl_newlink get dev with the rest Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:00 ` [patch net-next rfc 6/7] net: rtnetlink: introduce helper to get net_device instance by ifname Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:00 ` [patch net-next rfc 7/7] net: rtnetlink: add possibility to use alternative names as message handle Jiri Pirko
2019-07-20 3:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-20 7:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:03 ` [patch iproute2 rfc 1/2] ip: add support for alternative name addition/deletion/list Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 11:03 ` [patch iproute2 rfc 2/2] ip: allow to use alternative names as handle Jiri Pirko
2019-07-19 16:31 ` [patch net-next rfc 0/7] net: introduce alternative names for network interfaces Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-19 19:16 ` Jiri Pirko
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