Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:34:54PM CEST, dsah...@gmail.com wrote: >On 10/16/19 7:28 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:34:56PM CEST, dsah...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 10/9/19 8:49 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>>> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> >>>> >>>> Extend ll_name_to_index() to get the index of a netdevice using >>>> alternative interface name. Allow alternative long names to pass checks >>>> in couple of ip link/addr commands. >>> >>> you don't add altnames to the name_hash, so the lookup can not find a >>> match based on altname. >> >> you are right, it is always going to fall back to ll_link_get(). I will >> do another patch to add the altnames to name_hash. It can go in >> separatelly or I can add that to this patchset. Up to you. > >this patch claims to do the lookup, so it should actually be able to do >a lookup.
Allright.
