Next stop Utopia, full steam ahead?

Pat Suwalski pat at suwalski.net
Tue Jun 8 07:44:44 PDT 2004


I've moved the discussion to hal at fd.o.

Alan Cox wrote:
> "net.ethernet" is asking for Xerox to get annoyed at their mark being
> misused. It might be a lot better to use net.802. for such keys.

I agree. 802 works for both 802.11 and 802.2, etc. It might not be 
completely user friendly, but it allows for nice tricks regarding hal 
naming. For example "net.802.11". The dots work to our favour.

net
  |-802
     |-2
     |  |-wired
     |-11
        |-wireless

Just my 2 cents.

--Pat

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