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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:15:33 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: switching to if_xname from if_name and if_unit
Message-ID:  <20020730101533.A29988@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020729.223834.32171634.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:38:34PM -0600
References:  <20020726211050.A30598@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020729.223834.32171634.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:38:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : @@ -280,8 +280,7 @@ ep_attach(sc)
> :         attached = (ifp->if_softc != 0);
> :  
> :         ifp->if_softc = sc;
> : -       ifp->if_unit = sc->unit;
> : -       ifp->if_name = "ep";
> : +       sprintf(ifp->if_xname, "ep%d", sc->unit);
> 
> 	strcpy(ifp->if_xname, device_get_name(sc->dev));
> 
> might be better, don't you think?

Yes, that's probably better.  At least it's one less place that needs to
know the name of the device.

-- Brooks

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