From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: marcel@holtmann.org
Cc: sclark46@earthlink.net, epasheva@sierrawireless.com,
dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, rfiler@sierrawireless.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra_net.c driver
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100329.134144.57458224.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269894593.11714.215.camel@localhost.localdomain>
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:29:53 -0700
> because they are not NIC cards. They just use Ethernet emulation. And
> they also require a management interface to setup APN and activate them
> first.
>
> It is important that we tell userspace about the type of a network
> interface. We do the same for WiMAX and WiFi btw.
I completely agree with Marcel on this, please fix the device
type.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-27 1:21 [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra_net.c driver Elina Pasheva
2010-03-28 10:38 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2010-03-28 15:57 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <1269791821.11714.202.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-28 19:12 ` Stephen Clark
2010-03-29 0:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-03-29 12:30 ` Stephen Clark
[not found] ` <4BB09D75.7020500-ihVZJaRskl1bRRN4PJnoQQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-29 13:07 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <4BAFAA2C.8060604-ihVZJaRskl1bRRN4PJnoQQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-29 20:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
2010-03-29 20:41 ` David Miller [this message]
[not found] ` <20100329.134144.57458224.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-29 21:18 ` Elina Pasheva
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