Messages in this thread | | | From | Tom Gundersen <> | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:24:46 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 29/33] net: brcmfmac - set name assign type |
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> wrote: > On 10-07-14 10:17, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> The name is given by the firmware, so we assume it is predictable. > > How about the scenario where one would have multiple broadcom wifi > devices in the system. Both driver instances would alloc_netdev with > predictable but also the same ifname. Wondering whether we should ignore > the firmware ifname altogether.
Hm, that would just fail irrespective of this patch, right? Sounds like ignoring the firmware names is the right thing to do.
Cheers,
Tom
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