Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iproute2-2.6.23-rc3

From: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:34:28 +0400

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
>> There have been a lot of changes for 2.6.23, so here is a test release
>> of iproute2 that should capture all the submitted patches
>>
>> Pavel Emelianov (1):
>>      Make ip utility veth driver aware
> 
> 
> Why does this add a new ip subcommand instead and uses genetlink
> instead of the rtnl_link API, which was introduced exactly for
> this stuff?
> 

Hm... It does not, it just adds a parser for veth commands that
generic layer isn't aware of.