From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Device naming for wireless NICs... Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:25:15 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4050AF0B.7040901@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Ketrenos , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Matthew Galgoci In-Reply-To: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Matthew Galgoci wrote: > Going forward it might be worth while to standardize all wireless interface names, just > to show at a glance that an interface is 802.11x, and also to differentiate the fact that > eventually 802.11 will be its own network stack. I definitely want to standardize on something like wlan%d. We should get that for free when a generic 802.11 stack is in place, which implies that there will be a common wireless helper as a peer to ether_setup() in the current tree. Jeff