Stephen Hemminger wrote:
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
Regardless of the name, it would be nice to have some quick way to determine
if a network device is wireless or not. This could be an IOCTL, something
in /proc/ or similar. Even if you name them to be wlanX by default, folks
can rename them, so applications that care about the type of the network
device can't key off of names reliably...
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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