On 14.10.24 21:59, Eric Dumazet wrote:

As diagnosed by John Sperbeck :

This patch implies all ->bind() method took care of populating net->dev_addr ?

Otherwise the following existing heuristic is no longer working

// heuristic:  "usb%d" for links we know are two-host,
// else "eth%d" when there's reasonable doubt.  userspace
// can rename the link if it knows better.
if ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_ETHER) != 0 &&
     ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_POINTTOPOINT) == 0 ||
      (net->dev_addr [0] & 0x02) == 0))
strscpy(net->name, "eth%d", sizeof(net->name));

Hi,

you need to have a MAC to be an ethernet device, don't you?

	Regards
		Oliver