From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>,
Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@amsat.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] use-regular-eth-suffix.diff
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:42:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408FF8B5-A6A8-479A-B60A-37A219B5FCB1@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0704012010530.12316@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Apr 01, 2007, at 14:18:12, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Some radio adapter drivers wrongly(?) name their devices "wlan%d"
> instead of "eth%d" (if you ask me, it should be %u - but not today).
>
> Technically, they operate like Ethernet, and in fact, running `/
> sbin/ip a` shows "link/ether" instead of "link/ieee80211". This
> patch renames them back, but I would appreciate some comment,
> explanation or at least link why they actually have wlan%d there.
NACK. This has the potential to significantly break backwards-
compatibility for users of those cards who are not using udev to
maintain consistent device naming (because they only have a single
card, for example). I would recommend against applying it for that
reason.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-01 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-01 18:13 [PATCH 0/16] Assorted patches Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:13 ` [PATCH 1/16] vt-sysfs-for-colors.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 6:49 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 7:31 ` [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 9:30 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 11:26 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-02 11:44 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 11:54 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-02 12:47 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 13:20 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-02 13:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 18:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:39 ` James Bruce
2007-04-02 6:49 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 7:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 7:50 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 8:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 3/16] vt-underline-color.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 6:57 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 4/16] vt-printk-color.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:14 ` [PATCH 5/16] fix-kthread-niceness.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:39 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 06/16] isofs-add-write-bit.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:39 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 18:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:52 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 19:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:42 ` [PATCH] Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 19:47 ` [PATCH] Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 20:07 ` [PATCH] Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 19:50 ` [PATCH] Add a CONFIG_I_KNOW_WHAT_THE_HELL_I_AM_DOING variable Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 23:03 ` [PATCH] Andi Kleen
2007-04-01 20:22 ` [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff Robert P. J. Day
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 08/16] console-printk-level.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 09/16] zlib-decompression-status.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 17:48 ` Jörn Engel
2007-04-02 18:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:15 ` [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 5:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 7:01 ` [PATCH 10/16] show partitions on mount error Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 18:59 ` [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff Pavel Machek
2007-04-04 0:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:16 ` [PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:09 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-01 19:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 19:42 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-02 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 18:16 ` [PATCH 12/16] cifs-use-mutex.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:36 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-01 18:17 ` [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 5:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 6:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 10:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 0:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-04 5:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-17 8:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:17 ` [PATCH 14/16] kconfig-allow-override.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-04-01 19:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-01 18:18 ` [PATCH 15/16] use-regular-eth-suffix.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-01 18:42 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2007-04-02 1:40 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-04-01 18:18 ` [PATCH 16/16] warn-on-kthread-name-truncation.diff Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-02 6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 6:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
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