Am Freitag, 3. Juni 2011, 11:45:38 schrieb Alexey ORISHKO: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 2:58 AM > > > > > A follow-on to this is that if you really care about specific > > devices, > > > your application can use udev rules to "tag" specific interfaces > > based > > > on USB VID/PID/GUID or other device attributes, and check for those > > > tags in your program. Use udev (good) or netlink (good) or > > > SIOCGIFCONF (bad) to enumerate the various network interfaces on the > > > system and pick the > > > > I think Alexey's point was that the patch will hose up programs that > > currently do the netlink or SIOCGIFCONF thing and look for > > FLAG_POINTTOPOINT. > > Just to clarify, I was objecting to renaming interface name mostly because > devices which use CDC NCM function might be something different from wwan > devices. I would prefer to keep a generic name of interface (usbX or ethX). > > As an option anyone can use udev rules to set interface name they want > for their device based on VID/PID or MAC address or something else. > I've already provided udev rule example earlier in this thread. This is not ideal. Distributions cannot care about every VIP:PID value. If a device with an NCM interface needs to be treated in a special manner we'd better have a special name for such interfaces. Regards Oliver -- - - - SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany - - - -- 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
