From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC] Alternative hidden netwirk device interface Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:04:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20070221.000459.97291017.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070129184707.885764375.midnight@suse.cz> <20070129102814.6385ad2d@freekitty> <20070129140958.0cf6880f@freekitty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jbenc@suse.cz, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, shemminger@osdl.org To: shemminger@linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37238 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbXBUIFA (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:05:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070129140958.0cf6880f@freekitty> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:09:58 -0800 > 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 > > Compile tested only... I have no objections to this. It would be nice to wrap the hlist_unhashed() test around a well named inline function, such as "netdev_hidden()" or similar. With that minor enhancement, and a nice changelog (including a description of what this would be used for), I'll happily merge this during the next merge window. Thanks Stephen.