Re: [Madwifi-devel] [PATCH] variable interface name prefix

[Denis V. <vd...@po...>]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 12:01, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > This is code bloat.
> > Use 'ip l set dev ath0 name atheros1" instead.
>
> If you have that tool, this indeed would be the better solution. Anothe=
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> one would be using ifrename (thanks to Alexander Warg for the hint),
> which can be found at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ifrename =
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>
> In some cases the patch still might be the better solution, since it is
> resulting in much less code than adding an additional tool would (think
> of embedded applications, for example, which have ). In the end it's up
> to the user to decide which way to go.

By this reasoning, we shall now add similar parameters to each and every
networking driver in the kernel.
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