From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:59793 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751376AbZFIOuB (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:50:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't use master netdev name From: Johannes Berg To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <1244558869.895.7.camel@mj> References: <1244557112.4672.20.camel@johannes.local> <1244558869.895.7.camel@mj> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YsUwbOYDh2/wZ7WICpRd" Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:49:30 +0200 Message-Id: <1244558970.4672.26.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-YsUwbOYDh2/wZ7WICpRd Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > No objections against the patch. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --=-YsUwbOYDh2/wZ7WICpRd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKLnZ3AAoJEODzc/N7+Qma++sP/RSYjknxAfNxYMmN6dy6lTlO Mm9OGxvqRigNP/+yq4InxokZkICr/HYV2hRT2MC6c6tlRqeOqT5VDr/x4u/PDZdJ oG/kdUUP6j+dSNo5HHsOyzLsgm1IdwJ+qZFDPbf0y3kfq4CGLxz9tTTyTwb21G/B Xrd4VoEIVq6aC5xuaXBpGWBM4QEDVvoi54wK+uCSXZ9divqU2e2YBIhIS+QULYT5 44RMfdHsJMGFyf+Kpd9MvyH+1ZnQY4LPhIfdI/gK17Uo37E+zbjN5xn7u0ufZoqZ UXeMibgk+S1zgwtc9p9FOYuT5BAEHFUZtXPR2C8mcPzexnPzf6ul8XLNODyuD77S mhblGs+4hNrnh0amN61PMHOM3NIBlst40T7QEcoqyildCbW8FE3X06NMJYwXa/N7 2A3gyZK+xhzkVTcgIG9aYzOB0PmHxcO1mfnqm8P1ccycCSBVmS5XrNxbQrZXMAPY yU6WyOjfKyx0uDj/vvJNr8Cs4bnDkMrOK1N91FGVlpXJzrrFvxcv044br6hfDXR3 TBu9gzTY/E1UrWG3QhI4HtrFvhXK5N/PyPia25KzE5ERUN6NZAO0cWo/QUxvbzhG 8KwGl4dAj5DBr0GiU6WvFEH/WEE0LLZUsTZj7h1yNz7LFOk9qfxITf8MNSxUU00P AhvvPwtebGGrms6aqsYe =1Y6T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YsUwbOYDh2/wZ7WICpRd--