From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas: name the network device wlan%d Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:31:02 -0500 Message-ID: <1250094662.31650.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1250000012-25673-1-git-send-email-daniel@caiaq.de> <20090811143401.GD2684@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Daniel Mack , libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, Roel Kluin , netdev@vger.kernel.org, dsd@laptop.org To: "John W. Linville" Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:49910 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754414AbZHLQb1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:31:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090811143401.GD2684@tuxdriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > Cc: Roel Kluin > > Cc: John W. Linville > > 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