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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't use master netdev name

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On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 10:47 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:18 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Always use the wiphy name instead.
> 
> No objections against the patch.
> 
> Maybe we could use wiphy names for the network devices?  That is,
> wmaster0 would become phy0 and so on.  Using two names for the same
> thing is confusing.  What's better is that we won't have wmaster0
> corresponding to phy1 after the driver is reloaded.  We'll have "phy1"
> in both namespaces.
> 
> I wish we could hide those master devices using some "hidden network
> device" attribute, but it's not happening.

Actually, the reason I'm posting this patch is that I'm killing the
mdev.

johannes

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