Not all of them are handled this way
> - there is no code that actually sprintfs the right number in the format
> strings,
There is. Trust me 8). Look at the various device registering functions.
> - It break my command line parameters : ether=0,1,2,3,eth0 -> it tries
> to compare 'eth0' with 'eth%d' in net/ethernet/eth.c eth_setup(), and
> it fails.
The command line code is broken right now. But it was broken with most of 2.3
anyway so I didnt feel too bad about that for the moment 8)
> May be I didn't understand the aim of that patch.
It cleans up a large pile of code and several bugs related to device name
assignation.
Alan
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