DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-11
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Re: interface renaming
-On [20031101 19:52], Matthew Dillon (dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I think for DragonFly we should leave the naming as it is. For all intents
> and purposes ethernet interfaces are 'hidden' and 'abstracted' from the
> user be virtue of the route table already, we don't need to abstract them
> further by naming them all the same!
Amen.
It might just be a feeling, but to me it just feels so wrong to have
only ethN devices. I actually like the xlN, fxpN, and so on.
We might ened to check it it makes sense for all devices though.
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