Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 23:48:19 schrieb Carl Nordbeck: > 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. So how does user space learn how to open the control channel? > The nameing mbX reflects the will from several parties(GSM Association, > Ericsson...) to use MobileBroadband. > MBN is short for MobileBroadbandNetworkdevice, The name itself isn't the problem. The question is should it have a name of its own? And is it documented? If there are reason for using neither an ethernet nor a tty name, you must add documentation. Regards Oliver -- 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
