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From: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] rework d80211 cookie pointer
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:14:06 -0500
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On Friday 03 November 2006 14:08, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Yeah, I thought about that and added that function to get the wiphy index.
> cfg80211 makes the wiphy index an actual identifier that you can use to
> enumerate all devices it has attached etc, so that makes sense. and d80211
> also puts it into sysfs.
>
> Is that good enough?
>
I still prefer obtaining the name of the master interface because well.. al=
l=20
other network drivers prefix their messages with the name of their interfac=
e.

The master interface name should be as good as the wiphy index to enumerate=
=20
attached devices.

=2DMichael Wu

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