On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:16:44 +0100 Jiri Benc <jbenc@xxxxxxx> wrote: > [removed bcm43xx-dev list] > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:02:41 -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. > > Decided? I remember just you and hch saying "all existing wireless drivers > do that, so everybody should". When pointing out that just two drivers do > that (I think ipw and prism) and everybody else use something different > (wlan%d most often) there was no reply. "ipw and one other driver do that > so everybody should" doesn't sound like a strong argument to me. Don't put too much stock in what I said. Really don't care about such a trivial matter as naming. Jeff and Christoph seem to care, I don't > Wireless devices need different handling (setting SSID, etc.) than Ethernet > ones. I think it's not so bad idea to show that difference by using a > different default name. Everybody else who is in some kind different from > Ethernet use different name than eth%d. I think we should conform to > existing mainline practice by using something different than eth%d too. As long as the tools work it shouldn't matter. There are some tools like irqbalance that seem to have in bred assumptions. A bigger issue for me would be getting NAPI to work right for wireless. -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 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
