From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp•net>
To: Ulrich Gemkow <ulrich.gemkow@ikr•uni-stuttgart.de>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
Subject: Re: displayed name changed in ip link show for bridge- and other interfaces
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:12:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <557DD20E.4080005@hartkopp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557DCD0A.5040500@hartkopp.net>
@Nicolas: Just saw that you were not responsible for the @NONE m)
Sorry.
Btw. do you know why this @NONE stuff just emerged in 4.1-rc ?
Regards,
Oliver
On 14.06.2015 20:50, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> On 14.06.2015 12:00, Ulrich Gemkow wrote:
>
>> between Linux 4.0.5 and 4.1-rc7 the name as shown by "ip link show"
>> of bridge interfaces (and at least the dummy interface) changed from
>> (i.e.) br1 to br1@NONE.
>>
>> This breaks (at least for me :-) userspace (ip link show parsing
>> scripts). It is easy to solve, so not a big problem. I am using
>> Ubuntu 14.04.
>>
>> Is this user visible change intended?
>>
>
> Hi Ulrich,
>
> looking at iproute2 I found this patch:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git/commit/ip/ipaddress.c?id=ccdcbf35f120c754660b3b3f48fa67cc950a6407
>
>
> > iplink: add support of IFLA_LINK_NETNSID attribute
> > This new attribute is now advertised by the kernel for x-netns interfaces.
> > It's also possible to set it when an interface is created (and thus
> > creating a x-netns interface with one single message).
>
> Due to the fact that the kernel now provides the new attribute we get this
> @NONE stuff for interfaces that have no iflink value.
>
> This definitely is @UGLY !
>
> @Nicloas: Why don't you just omit the @NONE when iflink is zero in the new
> attribute?
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-14 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-14 10:00 displayed name changed in ip link show for bridge- and other interfaces Ulrich Gemkow
2015-06-14 18:50 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-14 19:12 ` Oliver Hartkopp [this message]
2015-06-15 7:23 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-15 9:13 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-15 15:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-06-16 17:35 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-16 17:47 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-17 7:26 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-20 22:58 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-06-23 12:48 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-06-23 17:21 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-07-06 15:25 ` [PATCH net] Revert "dev: set iflink to 0 for virtual interfaces" Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-06 16:38 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2015-07-07 7:44 ` [PATCH net v2] " Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-08 22:52 ` [PATCH net] " David Miller
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