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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hostap: handling device renames better
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:27:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217968039.29886.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217967824.3603.62.camel@johannes.berg>

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:23 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:23 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > How are drivers made aware that their device's name has changed so they
> > could potentially update things they stick in /proc or wherever?  hostap
> > and airo come to mind as current users of /proc.
> 
> You can register a netdevice notifier and follow the renames. mac80211
> does this for the debugfs dir.

Ok, will look into this.  Thanks!

Dan


      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-05 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-05 20:23 hostap: handling device renames better Dan Williams
2008-08-05 20:23 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-05 20:27   ` Dan Williams [this message]

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