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Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 23:13:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: use "firewire%d" instead of "eth%d"
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On Thu, 21 May 2009, Stefan Richter wrote:
> BTW, FreeBSD uses the name fwip%d AFAIK, and OS X just uses fw%d.  (But

If the patch will be accepted at all and it's not too late to ask: I'd 
vote for fw%d as well, "firefire" just looks too long, for me at least. 
And hey, if Apple can do it...we can too :-)   *duck*

Christian.
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