From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:33:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070227013320.GA4476@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070226150241.1b5b63b2@freekitty>
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:02:41PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This was hashed out on netdev 2+ years ago and decided that both ethernet
> and wireless devices should show up as 'eth%d'. For inclusion d80211 needs to conform
> to existing mainline kernel practice. If this means breaking the expectation of older
> out of tree wireless support (ie madwifi), sorry.
Any chance you could provide a pointer to that discussion in the archives?
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 4:06 Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix Alex Davis
2007-02-25 4:30 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-02-25 4:39 ` Larry Finger
2007-02-26 23:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27 1:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-02-27 10:16 ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-27 17:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27 18:21 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-27 18:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-02-27 19:15 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-27 18:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-28 1:25 ` John W. Linville
2007-02-28 8:51 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-28 16:44 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-28 16:50 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-28 16:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-02-28 16:55 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-02-28 18:35 ` John W. Linville
2007-02-28 19:21 ` Jouni Malinen
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