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

On 11/26/2014 02:25 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>>> 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. > > Yes, but "fixing" this issue in libvirt is not correct. > It needs to be fixed in the right place and iproute2 this is. > > libvirt is not the only user of this iproute2 feature. I agree that making all clients work around a bug is annoying; on the other hand, once a client has worked around it, I see no reason to force the client to have to revert, since the workaround is arguably more legible.