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Message-ID: <53BF961E.10406@broadcom.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:45:34 +0200
From:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Linux Wireless List" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	<brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 29/33] net: brcmfmac - set name assign type

On 10-07-14 22:24, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.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.

True. I realized that when starting to type my reply. I think at the
moment we never run into the scenario that trigger this code path. Will
make a separate patch for that. Probably on top of your changes.

Regards,
Arend

> Cheers,
> 
> Tom
> 

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