From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhherrmann@gmail.com,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>,
Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: nl80211 - pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:37:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427704662.26117.8.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426673619-2816-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no> (sfid-20150318_111356_326014_91F5B84B)
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 11:13 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> This will expose in /sys whether the ifname of a device is set by userspace
> or generated by the kernel. The latter kind (wlanX, etc) is not deterministic,
> so userspace needs to rename these devices to names that are guaranteed to
> stay the same between reboots. The former, however should never be renamed,
> so userspace needs to be able to reliably tell the difference.
>
> Similar functionality was introduced for the rtnetlink core in commit 5517750.
Applied - I rewrapped the commit log to fit 72 cols and expanded the
commit ID to 12 hex chars and added the subject.
johannes
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2015-03-18 10:13 [PATCH] net: nl80211 - pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf() Tom Gundersen
2015-03-30 8:37 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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