From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: P@draigBrady.com Subject: Re: Device naming for wireless NICs... Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:30:49 +0000 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <40519159.8000104@draigBrady.com> References: <20040304023524.GA19453@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20040310165548.A24693@infradead.org> <20040310172114.GA8867@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <404F5097.4040406@pobox.com> <20040310175200.GA9531@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <404F5744.1040201@pobox.com> <20040311024816.GC3738@jm.kir.nu> <404FD6BC.7090409@pobox.com> <20040311031709.GC3782@jm.kir.nu> <405093A7.90209@linux.co.intel.com> <4050AE90.9070005@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <4050AE90.9070005@pobox.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Ketrenos wrote: >=20 > Like Matthew said, any code that assumes a specific interface prefix, b= e=20 > it eth%d or wlan%d, is buggy. Users are allowed to choose random=20 > interface names for their interfaces, often via nameif(8) program. My=20 > own ethtool program is broken in this regard... My trivial patch fixes that. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D780937&group= _id=3D3242&atid=3D303242 Just wondering about the release schedule for ethtool? P=E1draig.