From: Chris Friesen <cbf123@mail.usask.ca>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: where is the ethernet device number determined?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 14:05:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5734E226.6040706@mail.usask.ca> (raw)
Hi,
I hope this is a simple question...with legacy naming ethernet devices are named
ethX. Where is that X determined? I've been looking in alloc_netdev_mqs() and
friends, but haven't found it yet.
Thanks,
Chris
next reply other threads:[~2016-05-12 20:14 UTC|newest]
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2016-05-12 20:05 Chris Friesen [this message]
2016-05-12 20:19 ` where is the ethernet device number determined? Cong Wang
2016-05-12 20:27 ` Chris Friesen
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