Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ppp: Add support for setting ifname in ppp options

2020-07-14 Thread Mark Deneen
Quentin, Thanks for the feedback, and I will resend this. I started off with a patch which contained the original authors, but that was lost in the process of applying the patch, since it is a patch of a patch. I was attempting to avoid patch fuzzing, since it had previously been applied to pppd

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] ppp: Add support for setting ifname in ppp options

2020-07-14 Thread Quentin Schulz
Hi Mark, On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:04:41AM -0400, Mark Deneen wrote: > pppd is patched in most Linux distributions to allow arbitrary naming > of ppp interfaces, allowing users to create consistent firewall rules > rather than having interfaces named "ppp0", "ppp1", etc. Yocto is > missing this

[OE-core] [PATCH] ppp: Add support for setting ifname in ppp options

2020-07-14 Thread Mark Deneen
pppd is patched in most Linux distributions to allow arbitrary naming of ppp interfaces, allowing users to create consistent firewall rules rather than having interfaces named "ppp0", "ppp1", etc. Yocto is missing this option. This patch, originally from SUSE, adds this option to pppd. It is not