From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751127AbaAEDxv (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:53:51 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58052 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932AbaAEDxu (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:53:50 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 19:54:01 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Herbert Rosmanith Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3.11.10: rtl8192cu device name, kernel crash Message-ID: <20140105035401.GA11255@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:13:53AM +0100, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: > > hello list, > > this afternoon I bought a new usb/wlan adapter, which identifies > itself as: > > # lsusb > ... > Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0bda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter > > the first thing I noticed is that the device name is renamed: > > [ 4444.688299] systemd-udevd[3090]: renamed network interface wlan1 to wlp0s29f7u4u4u2 > > Excellent! I always hated that userfriendly and easy to remember names like "wlan1". > Finally I have a more sophisticated name, "wlp0s29f7u4u4u2" that strictly follows > The Tao Of Terribly Silly Device Naming. Your distro does that, take it up with them. Usually there's an option to keep the "old" naming scheme somewhere, it should be documented somewhere. > By the way, kernel version is 3.11.10. Which is pretty old, does 3.12 work better? > As the device is handled by the rtl8192cu module, which is not in the > staging directory, it is considered stable, isn't it? It might help to cc: the wireless developers about wireless driver issues to get a better response... greg k-h