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Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:02:41PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> This was hashed out on netdev 2+ years ago and decided that both ethernet
> and wireless devices should show up as 'eth%d'. For inclusion d80211 needs to conform
> to existing mainline kernel practice. If this means breaking the expectation of older
> out of tree wireless support (ie madwifi), sorry.

Any chance you could provide a pointer to that discussion in the archives?

John
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