From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: nl80211 - pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf() Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:37:42 +0200 Message-ID: <1427704662.26117.8.camel@sipsolutions.net> References: <1426673619-2816-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no> (sfid-20150318_111356_326014_91F5B84B) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhherrmann@gmail.com, Kalle Valo , Brett Rudley , Arend van Spriel , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" , Hante Meuleman To: Tom Gundersen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1426673619-2816-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no> (sfid-20150318_111356_326014_91F5B84B) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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