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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: nl80211 - pass name_assign_type to
 rdev_add_virtual_intf()
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
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	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhherrmann@gmail.com,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>,
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	Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:37:42 +0200
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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