[libvirt] [PATCH 3/5] ip link needs 'name' in 3.16 to create the veth pair

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 09:34 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 26.11.2014 um 09:25 schrieb Cedric Bosdonnat:
> > Hi Martin,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 05:51 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >>> Instead of papering over the issue in libvirt better ship a non-broken iproute2
> >>> in openSUSE 13.2.
> >>> real fix: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git/commit/?id=f1b66ff
> >>>
> >>
> >> Oh, thank you for finding that, I should've done my homework!  Since
> >> it really is just a bug on iproute2 side in openSUSE, I'd rather keep
> >> it in its original state.  And since the patch is already pushed, I'm
> >> inclining to reverting it.
> >>
> >> Other opinions?
> > 
> > Quoting a colleague of mine working on the network stack:
> > 
> >     [this is] a regression in (upstream) iproute2 3.16, fixed in 3.17.  
> >     bnc#907093 has been created for it. (Factory is also affected but a
> >     submit request is already on its way.)
> > 
> > So I think we should keep that for those running the buggy 3.16.
> 
> openSUSE has to fix their package and to serve a bugfix update, full stop.

Thought that may not happen only to openSUSE... and that fix didn't harm
at all.

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Cedric