From 18f6c1219a8611ceca75372f2e88454bf60eaf16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Roy.Li" Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:01:07 +0800 Subject: iproute2: backport a patch to make adding vxlan link success If without this patch: $ ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 51 group 238.1.1.1 dev eth0 Error: argument "vxlan0" is wrong: Unknown device $ With this patch; $ ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 51 group 238.1.1.1 dev eth0 $ ifconfig -a |grep vxlan0 vxlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr da:61:56:2e:c2:20 $ (From OE-Core rev: 4f2873c8567738310f7e86c633c6da759554b21a) Signed-off-by: Roy.Li Signed-off-by: Ross Burton Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- ...p-link-Remove-unnecessary-device-checking.patch | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2/0001-ip-link-Remove-unnecessary-device-checking.patch (limited to 'meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2/0001-ip-link-Remove-unnecessary-device-checking.patch') diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2/0001-ip-link-Remove-unnecessary-device-checking.patch b/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2/0001-ip-link-Remove-unnecessary-device-checking.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0305a7065b --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/iproute2/iproute2/0001-ip-link-Remove-unnecessary-device-checking.patch @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +From 38790ccf7bd0e6eab78024ec381fd98d7c6a2782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: vadimk +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 +Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp +Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger +--- + 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++; + } +-- +1.7.10.4 + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf