The 'ip' utility hardcodes the assumption of being a 2-char command, where
any follow-on characters are passed as an argument:

  $ ./ip-full help
  Object "-full" is unknown, try "ip help".

This confusing behaviour isn't seen with 'tc' for example, and was added in
a 2005 commit without documentation. It was noticed during testing of 'ip'
variants built/packaged with different feature sets (e.g. w/o BPF support).

Drop the related code.

Fixes: 351efcde4e62 ("Update header files to 2.6.14")
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <tony.ambar...@gmail.com>
---
 ip/ip.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ip/ip.c b/ip/ip.c
index 4cf09fc3..631ce903 100644
--- a/ip/ip.c
+++ b/ip/ip.c
@@ -313,9 +313,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
        rtnl_set_strict_dump(&rth);
 
-       if (strlen(basename) > 2)
-               return do_cmd(basename+2, argc, argv);
-
        if (argc > 1)
                return do_cmd(argv[1], argc-1, argv+1);
 
-- 
2.25.1

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