This patch will allow you to specify the interface name prefix of wireless devices.
On my machine, the wireless devices under the bcm43xx driver are named 'ethx'; I
would really rather have them called 'wlanx', like bcm43xx-d80211 does.
I have this as an option to bcm43xx in modprobe.conf.
Usage: modprobe bcm43xx ifprefix=wlan
Your wireless devices will now be called 'wlan0', 'wlan1', etc.
This patch is against Larry's combined-2.6.20.1.patch
Signed-off by: Alex Davis <alex14641 at yahoo dot com>
--- drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c 2007-02-24 22:22:48.000000000 -0500
+++ ../linux-2.6.20.1-lwf/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c 2007-02-24
22:44:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@
# define modparam_fwpostfix ""
#endif /* CONFIG_BCM43XX_DEBUG*/
+static char modparam_ifprefix[IFNAMSIZ - 4];
+module_param_string(ifprefix, modparam_ifprefix, IFNAMSIZ - 4, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ifprefix, "Prefix for interface names (e.g; wlan).");
/* If you want to debug with just a single device, enable this,
* where the string is the pci device ID (as given by the kernel's
@@ -4123,6 +4126,10 @@
goto out;
}
/* initialize the net_device struct */
+ if ( strlen(modparam_ifprefix) > 0 ) {
+ strcpy(net_dev->name, modparam_ifprefix);
+ strcat(net_dev->name, "%d");
+ }
SET_MODULE_OWNER(net_dev);
SET_NETDEV_DEV(net_dev, &pdev->dev);
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