On 2/28/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 08:44 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: > What's wrong with wlan#? Some people are anal about changing user-visible properties when one driver replaces another.
Nothing is wrong with it, that's perfectly fine. This is just a matter of adopting a default convention for all wireless devices and sticking to it. Old drivers used eth%d as the drivers mangled ethernet frames and not wireless frames. With mac80211 wmaster handles wireless frames directly but wlan%d handles ethernet frames. If we care more about announcing a device is a wireless device is WLAN then lets go with wlan%d, if we care more about implying what type of frames are being passed to the device then eth%d seems more appropriate. Luis - 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
