Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2017 18:10:27 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] net: Allow name change of IFF_UP interfaces |
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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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