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

From: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:42:58 +0400

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> It does, you have "ip veth add", "ip veth del", ...
> 
> Didn't you already sent a patch that used "ip link add ..."?

The patch I sent last used "ip link add" and "ip link del".
The link_veth.c file only parses all the extra arguments.

> In any case this should be replaced by proper use of the rtnl_link
> stuff.
>