Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:44:55 +0100

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:05:41 -0800
> 
>> On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:57:02 -0800 (PST)
>> David Miller <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:47:31 -0800
>>>
>>>> Why is interface created through netlink named 'vlan0' and
>>>> interface created through old vconfig called 'ethX.YY'.
>>>> Seems like the interface should be consistent.
>>> I think the netlink scheme is saner, and the idea is to
>>> transition people over to that.
>>>
>>> We can't change what vconfig uses, so what Patrick decided
>>> to do is pretty sane if you ask me.
>> This is missing:
> 
> You can just say you don't think the behavior is
> intentional.... :-/

Indeed, it was intentional not to have these IMO useless naming
schemes when you can simply supply the name of your choice when
creating the interface.