From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:47:26 +0000
Subject: Re: rename ppp interface
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James Cameron wrote:
> I'm certainly interested in the patch; in the PPTP projects we regularly
> get "change the interface name" as a wishlist request.  Can you tell me
> which kernel version range supports the ioctl?

The SIOCSIFNAME ioctl is supported for ages.  Linux `nameif' program
that uses it is very old too.  At least, linux 2.2 does support it.
All after all, error() in patch may be changed into warn().

/mjt