Re: [PATCH 15/16] use-regular-eth-suffix.diff

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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Jeroen Vreeken <pe1rxq@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Date: Sunday, April 1, 2007 - 9:40 pm

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:18:12PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:



The address may look like wired Ethernet (both are based on IEEE 802
standards), but IEEE 802.11 does not behave like IEEE 802.3. For
example, one cannot send frames with a foreign source address in client
mode when using IEEE 802.11 which is clearly different from wired
Ethernet. IEEE 802.11 interfaces (in client mode) cannot be bridged at
layer 2 in the same way as wired Ethernet interfaces could.


Renames _back_? No it doesn't. Host AP driver has never used eth%d as
the interface name template


NAK. Host AP driver has been using wlan%d for close to seven years and I
see no reason to change it now. This will just cause problems for users.
If someone wants to rename the interface to something else, they can do
it with number of different ways from user space. The kernel default
should not be changed at this point.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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[PATCH 0/16] Assorted patches, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:13 pm)
[PATCH 16/16] warn-on-kthread-name-truncation.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 16/16] warn-on-kthread-name-truncation.diff, Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 2, 2:00 am)
Re: [PATCH 16/16] warn-on-kthread-name-truncation.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 2:51 am)
[PATCH 15/16] use-regular-eth-suffix.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 15/16] use-regular-eth-suffix.diff, Kyle Moffett, (Sun Apr 1, 2:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 15/16] use-regular-eth-suffix.diff, Jouni Malinen, (Sun Apr 1, 9:40 pm)
[PATCH 14/16] kconfig-allow-override.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 14/16] kconfig-allow-override.diff, Sam Ravnborg, (Sun Apr 1, 2:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 14/16] kconfig-allow-override.diff, Randy Dunlap, (Sun Apr 1, 3:09 pm)
[PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff, Eric Dumazet, (Mon Apr 2, 6:41 am)
Re: [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Apr 3, 8:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff, Eric Dumazet, (Wed Apr 4, 1:03 am)
Re: [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Apr 17, 4:05 am)
Re: [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff, Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 2, 1:58 am)
Re: [PATCH 13/16] show-pipesize-in-stat.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 2:48 am)
[PATCH 12/16] cifs-use-mutex.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH 12/16] cifs-use-mutex.diff, Roland Dreier, (Mon Apr 2, 1:36 am)
[PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff, Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 2, 1:53 am)
Re: [PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff, Dave Jones, (Sun Apr 1, 3:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 3:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 11/16] samba-eintr-fix.diff, Dave Jones, (Sun Apr 1, 3:42 pm)
[PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff, Pavel Machek, (Mon Apr 2, 2:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Apr 3, 8:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff, Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 2, 1:48 am)
Re: [PATCH 10/16] show partitions on mount error, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 3:01 am)
Re: [PATCH 10/16] show-partitions-on-mount-error.diff, Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 2, 1:47 am)
[PATCH 09/16] zlib-decompression-status.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 09/16] zlib-decompression-status.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 2:50 pm)
[PATCH 08/16] console-printk-level.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 08/16] console-printk-level.diff, Randy Dunlap, (Sun Apr 1, 3:07 pm)
[PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff, Kyle Moffett, (Sun Apr 1, 2:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff, Kyle Moffett, (Sun Apr 1, 2:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff, Robert P. J. Day, (Sun Apr 1, 4:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH 07/16] kconfig-dynamic-frequency.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 3:01 pm)
[PATCH], Kyle Moffett, (Sun Apr 1, 3:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH], Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 3:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH], Kyle Moffett, (Sun Apr 1, 4:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH], Andi Kleen, (Sun Apr 1, 7:03 pm)
[PATCH 06/16] isofs-add-write-bit.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:15 pm)
[PATCH 5/16] fix-kthread-niceness.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 5/16] fix-kthread-niceness.diff, Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 2, 1:39 am)
[PATCH 4/16] vt-printk-color.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:14 pm)
[PATCH 3/16] vt-underline-color.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/16] vt-underline-color.diff, Andrew Morton, (Mon Apr 2, 1:37 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/16] vt-underline-color.diff, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 2, 2:57 am)
[PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff, James Bruce, (Sun Apr 1, 2:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 2, 2:49 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 3:04 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 2, 3:50 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 4:01 am)
[PATCH 1/16] vt-sysfs-for-colors.diff, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 1, 2:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/16] vt-sysfs-for-colors.diff, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 2, 2:49 am)
[PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 3:31 am)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Pavel Machek, (Mon Apr 2, 2:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Paul LeoNerd Evans, (Mon Apr 2, 7:26 am)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 2, 7:44 am)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Paul LeoNerd Evans, (Mon Apr 2, 7:54 am)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 2, 8:47 am)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Apr 2, 9:34 am)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Paul LeoNerd Evans, (Mon Apr 2, 9:20 am)
Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset, Antonino A. Daplas, (Mon Apr 2, 5:30 am)