Hi Greg. The reason for this is that the name usbX is very confusing for a MobileBroadband device. This type of devices needs a control-plane to start working, ie AT command channel to initiate the data user-plane. The nameing mbX reflects the will from several parties(GSM Association, Ericsson...) to use MobileBroadband. MBN is short for MobileBroadbandNetworkdevice, /BR Carl Nordbeck > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-usb-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-usb-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg KH > Sent: den 12 november 2008 20:27 > To: Carl Nordbeck > Cc: Alan Stern; Oliver Neukum; linux-net; linux-usb > Subject: Re: [PATCH]MBM: add Ericsson mbm driver > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:25:35AM +0100, Carl Nordbeck wrote: > > --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c > > +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c > > @@ -1205,6 +1205,9 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface > *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod) > > /* WLAN devices should always be named "wlan%d" */ > > if ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_WLAN) != 0) > > strcpy(net->name, "wlan%d"); > > + /* MB devices should always be named "mb%d" */ > > + if (dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_MBN) > > + strcpy (net->name, "mb%d"); > > Why? Why have a different naming scheme only for this type > of devices? > What makes this necessary? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-usb" in the body of a message to > majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
