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

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Aug 11 10:34:01 EDT 2009


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 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

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?

John
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