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authorjow <jow@3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73>2012-06-19 17:03:24 +0000
committerjow <jow@3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73>2012-06-19 17:03:24 +0000
commit5cae7371a78b99af668d4e1f43c985a8b707aa33 (patch)
treea44347c0cfedce98ee1f16906d3391c4d86b2d48 /package/ppp/patches/320-custom_iface_names.patch
parent7c90f3b2b498531a267b0e85c4f634f65d76eba8 (diff)
[package] ppp: annotate most patches with description and S-o-b
git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@32463 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
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diff --git a/package/ppp/patches/320-custom_iface_names.patch b/package/ppp/patches/320-custom_iface_names.patch
index 26e683753..a95f4f8c8 100644
--- a/package/ppp/patches/320-custom_iface_names.patch
+++ b/package/ppp/patches/320-custom_iface_names.patch
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+pppd: Support arbitrary interface names
+
+This patch implements a new string option "ifname" which allows to specify
+fully custom PPP interface names on Linux. It does so by renaming the
+allocated pppX device immediately after it has been created to the requested
+interface name.
+
+Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
+
--- a/pppd/main.c
+++ b/pppd/main.c
@@ -745,8 +745,11 @@ void