Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 8 authors, 2007-02-21

Re: [PATCH 4/6] d80211: don't display name of invisible network device

From: Jan Kiszka <hidden>
Date: 2007-01-30 14:00:14

2007/1/30, Johannes Berg [off-list ref]:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 18:48 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
quoted
Invisible master interface does not have meaningful name. Display the wiphy
identifier in kernel messages instead.

Also, remove the allocation of master interface name as it is purposeless
now.
If the master netdev no longer has a name, how can you still use `tc' on
it?
I hope you can't, because that was recently proven to be able to
subtly break the stack:

http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg29219.html

Jan
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