Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCHv2 4/9] rtnl: add function rtnl_link_info

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 06:31:56PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Would it be better to pass a device name? If we pass the index number. Then we
> need to convert both iface->name and port->name to index in rtnl_link_info()
> and port_event().
> 
> And if pass a device name. We can convert the name to index in
> rtnl_link_status() unified.

Yes, use the name string if that simplifies the code.

Thanks,
Richard