Re: [RFC/PATCH] ICMPv6 MIB stats per-interface

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <20030415.014047.39346510.yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 15 Apr 
2003 01:40:47 +0900 (JST)), YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
<yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> In article <20030414.090610.117741299.davem@xxxxxxxxxx> (at Mon, 14 Apr 2003 
> 09:06:10 -0700 (PDT)), "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> 
> > So we'd then have /proc/net/dev_snmp6/{lo,eth0,eth1} etc.
> > 
> > Ok?
> 
> Okay.  I'd like to see ifIndex in that file, too.

BTW, for example, if we do
 # ip link set eth9 name foobar
if_indextoname() will return foobar. 

we, however, will see /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth9 instead of 
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/foobar.  This is not good.

Is this just a bug not having NETDEV_CHANGENAME handler to 
rename it?

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