A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:22:33AM +0100, Carl Nordbeck wrote: > MobileBroadband devices needs to implement some kind of ethernet > emulation. This is necessary as ppp uses to much overhead to reach > the high bandwidth HSPA devices can provide. Still HSPA modems needs a > tty channel for controlling the device as this is legacy requirement > defined by GSM and 3GPP specification. So, just like the existing hso driver does, right? > So the control-plane for high speed MobileBroadband devices is a tty, > this is one major difference from usbX/ethX/wlanX devices. No different from the hso driver? > I think that a new name is good to indicate that MobileBroadband devices > are diffrent in how they are setup. Again, have you asked the network driver maintainers about this? Have you documented it anywhere? How will people know what to do with these device names otherwise? > Also it is good to have one name that dont implies the vendor name for > this type of devices. Sure, no vendor name is fine, it's just that you need to do a bit more work here than just a tiny patch to an existing framework :) 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
