| To: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Device naming for wireless NICs... |
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| Date: | Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:30:49 +0000 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: James Ketrenos wrote:Like Matthew said, any code that assumes a specific interface prefix, be it eth%d or wlan%d, is buggy. Users are allowed to choose random interface names for their interfaces, often via nameif(8) program. My own ethtool program is broken in this regard... My trivial patch fixes that. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=780937&group_id=3242&atid=303242 Just wondering about the release schedule for ethtool? Pádraig. |
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