Quoting Alex Davis <alex14641@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. You can use ifrename from wireless tools. Use the option that checks the ethtool information. Jean has just released Wireless Tools 29-pre12, which can read symlinks in sysfs. That would allow renaming d80211 based network devices by checking the "driver" symlinks in sysfs. I asked Jean to do that with bcm43xx_d80211 in mind. It's not that I'm against your patch. I'm rather ambivalent. But I think using ifrename could reduce the need in kernel support for interface renaming. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
