On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:48:19PM +0100, Carl Nordbeck wrote: > 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, Do any other types of Linux network devices currently use this name? Do any userspace tools expect this naming scheme and handle it differently than other network devices already? Is this all docmented somewhere? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
