On 10/11/17 6:29 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 10/10/2017 à 16:50, David Ahern a écrit :
>> On 10/10/17 6:41 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>>> IFLA_IFALIAS is defined as NLA_STRING. It means that the minimal length of
>>> the attribute is 1 ("\0"). However, to remove an alias, the attribute
>>> length must be 0 (see dev_set_alias()).
>>>
>>> Let's define the type to NLA_BINARY, so that the alias can be removed.
>>
>> not to be pedantic, but we need to be clear that the type is changed
>> only for policy validation.
> With the comment in the code, it is clear, isn't it?Code comment was fine; commit log -- line referenced above -- is open for interpretation.
