From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: jgarzik@pobox.com
Cc: maxk@qualcomm.com, shemminger@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.70+] tun using alloc_netdev
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:57:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030611.205721.115935520.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030611194317.GE31051@gtf.org>
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:43:18 -0400
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:21:44PM -0700, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> This is wrong. register_netdevice() does not expand name (ie %d stuff).
> So dev_alloc_name() is still needed. i.e.
Correct.
But, register_netdev() is preferred precisely for this reason.
Right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-12 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-09 18:58 [PATCH 2.5.70+] tun using alloc_netdev Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-09 19:00 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-11 19:21 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-06-11 19:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-11 20:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-11 21:03 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-06-12 3:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-12 3:57 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-06-12 8:11 ` David S. Miller
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