Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:37:25 +0200 > Serhey Popovych <serhe.popov...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Both of them accept network device name as argument, but have different >> meaning: >> >> dev - is a device by it's name, >> name - name for specific device device. >> >> The only case where they treated separately is network device rename >> case where need to specify both ifindex and new name. In rest of the >> cases we can assume that dev == name. > > I would rather keep name as only being a valid argument for set command. > And reject use of: > > ip li show name eth0 >
But ip-link(8) man page is full of examples where "name" is used instead of "dev". I suppose there are lot of configuration we can broke when explicitly disabling "name" as an alternative to "dev". Especially on the first lines in man page we have: ip link add [ link DEVICE ] [ name ] NAME ... and there is no reference to "dev". What do you think?
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