7 Dec
2008
7 Dec
'08
10:33 a.m.
Dear Ben Warren,
In message 493B6373.3010808@gmail.com you wrote:
Neat, although it's very tempting to pull a Python 3 and say "screw reverse compatibility" and change this naming convention.
If we'd change it, then my vote wouldbe to change ethaddr into eth0addr :-)
The reasoning for the name (as I see it today [which is different from the time when "ethaddr" was used for the first time]) is "MAC address for the Ethernet interface as it's being called in Linux", i. e. "ethNaddr" means "MAC address of the `ethN' network interface (in Linux)".
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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