Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:35947 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752065AbXB1IxF (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:53:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix From: Johannes Berg To: "John W. Linville" Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jiri Benc , Stephen Hemminger , Larry Finger , Pavel Roskin , Alex Davis , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070228012500.GB4072@tuxdriver.com> References: <510326.55988.qm@web50211.mail.yahoo.com> <20070224233001.3ok4k0c00ksos4sw@webmail.spamcop.net> <45E112F7.9090908@lwfinger.net> <20070226150241.1b5b63b2@freekitty> <20070227111644.784600be@logostar.upir.cz> <43e72e890702271055sc1525ecy54870626125a7fae@mail.gmail.com> <20070228012500.GB4072@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-a3jGN1gim9TgsbmbLFha" Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:51:46 +0100 Message-Id: <1172652706.3681.21.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-a3jGN1gim9TgsbmbLFha Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:25 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > What about monitor mode? >=20 > Doesn't airo use "wifiX" for its monitor interfaces? For monitor > interfaces, should we adopt that convention as well? We don't need a convention for monitor mode. Either the user sets an existing interface to monitor mode (we don't touch the name) or the user creates a new monitor interface (they get to choose the name up front) johannes --=-a3jGN1gim9TgsbmbLFha Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF5UKi/ETPhpq3jKURAmiuAKCLdQVZQ6ypCFGgJUYLoA2QYCJGgQCfUz60 j/CXZno/jqCOxwnSpDMdmqo= =viGY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-a3jGN1gim9TgsbmbLFha--