From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org,
Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: name the network device wlan%d
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:34:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090811143401.GD2684@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250000012-25673-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:13:32PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 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 <daniel@caiaq.de>
> Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> 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?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-11 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 14:13 [PATCH] libertas: name the network device wlan%d Daniel Mack
2009-08-11 14:34 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-08-12 7:56 ` Bob Dunlop
2009-08-12 8:55 ` Daniel Mack
2009-08-12 16:31 ` Dan Williams
2009-08-13 3:48 ` Daniel Drake
2009-08-13 17:28 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <20090811151051.GA18186@guralp.com>
2009-08-11 15:33 ` Daniel Mack
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