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

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/comm... >>>> >>> >>> 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.