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From 38790ccf7bd0e6eab78024ec381fd98d7c6a2782 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++;
	}
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