weirdness in interface.c routine get_name()

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael S. Zick wrote:

> On Tue June 20 2006 05:24, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >
> >   also, will the file /proc/net/dev actually contain interface alias
> > names?  on my FC system, i used ifconfig to create a totally bogus
> > alias name, eth0:1, but that name never appeared in that file.  can
> > anyone else confirm that interface aliases will really show up there?
> >
> Just checked kernel-2.6.14 and kernel-2.4.22 no alias names in /proc/net/dev
>
> The code for alias accounting was changed in kernel-2.2.something -
> You may be looking at code supporting kernels before 2.2.x

i suspected as much.  refresh my memory -- is busybox still actively
supporting kernels earlier than 2.2?  if not, perhaps that code can be
simplified.  certainly, that entire routine can be replaced with a
simple call to xregcomp() to extract the interface name.

rday