On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 08:28:49AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 01/22/2015 07:14 AM, Chris Leech wrote:
> > Send getlink requests when running into a pre-existing VLAN, to kick the 
> > code
> > in the newlink handler to keep moving forward.
> > 
> > This is an ugly hack.  Part of the problem is the filtering of reported
> > interfaces so fipvlan forgets about existing vlans.  Part of it is that
> > create_and_start_vlan wants to ignore vlans already in the interface list as
> > something it's already dealt with, when in auto mode without filtering they
> > might have been in the initial getlink dump.
>
> :-)
> 
> Told you so.
> 
> As you've deleted the handler in the last patch you have to
> retrigger netlink to actually get an event.

Nope, vlan devices created before fipvlan is run still can't be detected
as matching the FIP notification and reused.  Might be a bit of an edge
case that nobody cares about, but that's what I was hacking around.

- Chris
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