If you've got a WiFi device that connects to the host computer via USB,
do you refer to it as a "wireless USB device" or as a "USB wireless
device"?
The second would seem to be more logical, by analogy with things like a
USB mouse or a USB thumbdrive -- we don't say "mouse USB device" or
"thumbdrive USB device"!
Furthermore, the first ("Wireless USB") is in fact the name of a defunct
specification for an Ultra-WideBand interface that would run the USB
communication protocol over a wireless connection.
Nevertheless there are quite a few places in the kernel source that use
"wireless USB" where they really mean "USB wireless". (A few of them
are gray cases, like "Sierra Wireless USB-to-WWAN", although here the
word "Wireless" evidently is redundant -- maybe it is part of a brand
name?)
Would there be any objection to a patch that does a wholesale conversion
from "wireless USB" to "USB wireless"?
Alan Stern
PS: Similar reasoning applies to the term "wireless PCIe device",
although here the number of offenders is smaller.
