From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternative hidden netwirk device interface
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:09:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070130100919.GD8548@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070129140958.0cf6880f@freekitty>
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:09:58PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Change to allow register_netdevice() to be called with a blank name.
> If name is blank, it is not put in name hash list, and doesn't
> show up in /sys or /proc
That sounds even better indeed!
Of course register_netdevice should grow a detailed explanation of
this behaviour in the kdoc comment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-30 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-29 17:48 [RFC PATCH 1/6] invisible network devices Jiri Benc
2007-01-29 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] d80211: use invisible network device for wmaster Jiri Benc
2007-01-29 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] d80211: drop packets from nonexisting interfaces in PS mode Jiri Benc
2007-01-29 17:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] d80211: don't display name of invisible network device Jiri Benc
2007-01-30 13:47 ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-30 14:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2007-01-31 18:58 ` Johannes Berg
2007-02-01 15:17 ` Jiri Benc
2007-02-01 15:19 ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-29 17:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] d80211: remove useless callbacks from wmaster Jiri Benc
2007-01-29 17:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] d80211: fix rtnl locking in ieee80211_register_hw Jiri Benc
2007-01-29 17:48 ` d80211: a patch for standalone d80211 tarball Jiri Benc
2007-01-29 18:34 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2007-01-29 20:23 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-01-31 18:06 ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-29 18:28 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] invisible network devices Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-29 22:09 ` [RFC] Alternative hidden netwirk device interface Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-30 10:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-01-31 18:26 ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-31 18:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-21 8:04 ` David Miller
2007-01-30 10:08 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] invisible network devices Christoph Hellwig
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