Re: [PATCH] libertas: name the network device wlan%d

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 10:34 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:13:32PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:

quoted

Devices created by the libertas driver are currently called eth%d. Which
is wrong, because the device does not at all have anything to do with
Ethernet. And it is also confusing when used on devices with more than
one network device.

Fix this by calling it wlan%d.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <redacted>
Cc: Roel Kluin <redacted>
Cc: John W. Linville <redacted>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org

I'm fine with changing it, but it isn't really wrong either -- it's
just a name, and afterall in most cases all the user will see is
ethernet frames.

Comments from the libertas driver crew?

I don't care either way, it's completely historical.  Most of the
fullmac drivers used 'eth' back when.  Might want to get buy-in from the
OLPC crew since they probably have the most deployed units using
libertas (cc-ed Daniel Drake).

Daniel, is it a problem for you guys if the libertas wifi interface name
went from 'eth' -> 'wlan' ?  Mesh name would be unchanged.

Dan