Pavel Emelianov wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>>+ >>>+ if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME]) >>>+ nla_strlcpy(ifname, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ); >>>+ else >>>+ snprintf(ifname, IFNAMSIZ, DRV_NAME "%%d"); >> >> >>Does this work? The other device is not registered at this time, so I >>think the allocated names could clash .. > > > Oh! And one more thing, I've just thought about - even two devices with > similar name would be ok when we have a namespaces and one of the ends of > this tunnel is to be in some other namespace rather that the init one.
Yes, but we don't have network namespaces yet. Which brings up another question: is this driver of any use without namespaces? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
