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

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

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:
> > 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?

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