Re: [PATCH] net: nl80211 - pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()

On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 11:13 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:

This will expose in /sys whether the ifname of a device is set by userspace
or generated by the kernel. The latter kind (wlanX, etc) is not deterministic,
so userspace needs to rename these devices to names that are guaranteed to
stay the same between reboots. The former, however should never be renamed,
so userspace needs to be able to reliably tell the difference.

Similar functionality was introduced for the rtnetlink core in commit 5517750.

Applied - I rewrapped the commit log to fit 72 cols and expanded the
commit ID to 12 hex chars and added the subject.

johannes