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Re: [PATCH] PS3: gelic: change the prefix of the net interface for wireless

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Masakazu Mokuno wrote:
> The gelic driver uses two net interfaces, one for ethernet and the
> other for wireless. They share same MAC address and use 'eth' prefix
> for the name.
> As udev uses the MAC address to check uniqueness, this is
> somewhat problematic.  So change the prefix of the network interface
> name for the wireless so that udev can have an easy way to distinguish
> interfaces.

Now my PS3 has `eth0' and `wlan0_rename'.
I assume we still need changes to udev?

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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