iproute/iproute2-3.16.0-ip-link-add-name.patch
Lubomir Rintel 0bc5d2c911 Backport fix for ip link add name regression that broke libvirt
Used to work in 3.14, broken in 3.16. Fix already upstream.
Libvirt does this when adding a veth pair:

  # ip link add vnet18 type veth peer name vnet19
  Error: argument "vnet18" is wrong: Unknown device
2014-10-04 13:21:42 +02:00

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From f1b66ff83a0babbe99fef81b3a960d7a4ce8dbc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: vadimk <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:06:00 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ip link: Remove unnecessary device checking
The real checking is performed later in iplink_modify(..) func which
checks device existence if NLM_F_CREATE flag is set.
Also it fixes the case when impossible to add veth link which was
caused by 9a02651a87 (ip: check for missing dev arg when doing VF rate)
because these devices are not exist yet.
Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
ip/iplink.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index 1a907d9..ea06871 100644
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -593,8 +593,6 @@ int iplink_parse(int argc, char **argv, struct iplink_req *req,
duparg2("dev", *argv);
*dev = *argv;
dev_index = ll_name_to_index(*dev);
- if (dev_index == 0)
- invarg("Unknown device", *argv);
}
argc--; argv++;
}
--
2.1.0