Re: [PATCH] support for large number of network devices.

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:46:31 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:24:11 -0800
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This should make it match the existing semantics more exactly.
> > It will skip the false positive matchs from sscanf trailing chars
> > or blanks.
> 
> Ok, but... I thought we had decided to move towards the hashing based
> patch you said you had so we can kill two birds with one stone?
> 
> At least, that is the conclusion I thought we had arrived at.
> :-)

The right way is a combination of the two pass dev_alloc_name and hashing
the names.  Both work together