netdev - Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra

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Message-Id: <20100329.134144.57458224.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcel@...tmann.org
Cc:	sclark46@...thlink.net, epasheva@...rrawireless.com,
	dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net, rfiler@...rrawireless.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra_net.c driver

From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:29:53 -0700

> because they are not NIC cards. They just use Ethernet emulation. And
> they also require a management interface to setup APN and activate them
> first.
> 
> It is important that we tell userspace about the type of a network
> interface. We do the same for WiMAX and WiFi btw.

I completely agree with Marcel on this, please fix the device
type.
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