Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:34:56PM CEST, dsah...@gmail.com wrote: >On 10/9/19 8:49 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> >> >> Extend ll_name_to_index() to get the index of a netdevice using >> alternative interface name. Allow alternative long names to pass checks >> in couple of ip link/addr commands. > >you don't add altnames to the name_hash, so the lookup can not find a >match based on altname.
you are right, it is always going to fall back to ll_link_get(). I will do another patch to add the altnames to name_hash. It can go in separatelly or I can add that to this patchset. Up to you. >
