On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 11:14:00 -0600 David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/19 7:16 AM, Andrea Claudi wrote: > > This reverts commit ba126dcad20e6d0e472586541d78bdd1ac4f1123. > > It breaks tunnel creation when using 'dev' parameter: > > > > $ ip link add type dummy > > $ ip -6 tunnel add ip6tnl1 mode ip6ip6 remote 2001:db8:ffff:100::2 local > > 2001:db8:ffff:100::1 hoplimit 1 tclass 0x0 dev dummy0 > > add tunnel "ip6tnl0" failed: File exists > > > > dev parameter must be used to specify the device to which > > the tunnel is binded, and not the tunnel itself. > > > > Stephen: since this reverts a commit in 5.2 it should be in 5.2 as well. 5.2 has been released. Probably not worth doing 5.2.1 for corner case like this.