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

Daniel Mack daniel at caiaq.de
Tue Aug 11 10:09:34 EDT 2009


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 at caiaq.de>
Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin at gmail.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
index 89575e4..8df1cfd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c
@@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ struct lbs_private *lbs_add_card(void *card, struct device *dmdev)
 	/* Allocate an Ethernet device and register it */
 	dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct lbs_private));
 	if (!dev) {
-		lbs_pr_err("init ethX device failed\n");
+		lbs_pr_err("init wlanX device failed\n");
 		goto done;
 	}
 	priv = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -1204,6 +1204,7 @@ struct lbs_private *lbs_add_card(void *card, struct device *dmdev)
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, dmdev);
 
 	priv->rtap_net_dev = NULL;
+	strcpy(dev->name, "wlan%d");
 
 	lbs_deb_thread("Starting main thread...\n");
 	init_waitqueue_head(&priv->waitq);
-- 
1.6.3.3




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