From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't use master netdev name
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:49:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244558970.4672.26.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244558869.895.7.camel@mj>
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On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 10:47 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:18 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Always use the wiphy name instead.
>
> No objections against the patch.
>
> Maybe we could use wiphy names for the network devices? That is,
> wmaster0 would become phy0 and so on. Using two names for the same
> thing is confusing. What's better is that we won't have wmaster0
> corresponding to phy1 after the driver is reloaded. We'll have "phy1"
> in both namespaces.
>
> I wish we could hide those master devices using some "hidden network
> device" attribute, but it's not happening.
Actually, the reason I'm posting this patch is that I'm killing the
mdev.
johannes
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 14:18 [PATCH] mac80211: don't use master netdev name Johannes Berg
2009-06-09 14:47 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-09 14:49 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-06-09 14:53 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-09 15:40 ` Marcel Holtmann
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