Re: [iproute PATCH] iplink: Notify user if EEXIST error might be spurious

2017-08-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:27:47 +0200 Phil Sutter wrote: > Back in the days when RTM_NEWLINK wasn't yet implemented, people had to > rely upon kernel modules to create (virtual) interfaces for them. The > number of those was usually defined via module parameter, and a sane > default

[iproute PATCH] iplink: Notify user if EEXIST error might be spurious

2017-08-01 Thread Phil Sutter
Back in the days when RTM_NEWLINK wasn't yet implemented, people had to rely upon kernel modules to create (virtual) interfaces for them. The number of those was usually defined via module parameter, and a sane default value was chosen. Now that iproute2 allows users to instantiate new interfaces