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Re: network interface names ethX and renaming interfaces

To: rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rusty Russell)
Subject: Re: network interface names ethX and renaming interfaces
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:11:56 +0300 (MSK)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <E16FOkX-0001pY-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au> from "Rusty Russell" at Dec 16, 1 04:45:00 am
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Hello!

> What an interesting corner case.  I assume that there's a good
> (speed?) reason why init_etherdev doesn't use dev_alloc_name() or
> equiv.

It was simply heavily broken. Well, if all was right in x.y, there were
no reasons to work n kernel x.y+1. Right? :-)

Alexey

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