Pavel Roskin wrote: > 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. NACK. On my system (openSUSE 10.2), one sets the name in /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rule. I feel that interface renaming is handled perfectly well in userland, and kernel support is not needed. Larry - 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
