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Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces

From Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces
Date 2017-08-09 18:20 +0200
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> I understand the 'legacy' concern but at the same time we don't want to
> have aftificial limitations too. Name change, in particular, doesn't
> happen 'under the hood' -- someone privileged enough needs to request
> the change.
> 
> Can you think of any particular real world scenarios which are broken by
> the change?

How about:

man 8 dhclient-script

The interface name is passed in $interface to the scripts. Do we get
the old name or the new name? I suspect scripts are going to break if
they are given the old name, which no longer exists.

     Andrew

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[PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-08-09 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces 吉藤英明 <hideaki.yoshifuji@miraclelinux.com> - 2017-08-09 14:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-08-09 17:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-08-09 18:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-08-10 10:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-08-10 16:20 +0200

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