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On Apr 01, 2007, at 14:18:12, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Some radio adapter drivers wrongly(?) name their devices "wlan%d" > instead of "eth%d" (if you ask me, it should be %u - but not today). > > Technically, they operate like Ethernet, and in fact, running `/ > sbin/ip a` shows "link/ether" instead of "link/ieee80211". This > patch renames them back, but I would appreciate some comment, > explanation or at least link why they actually have wlan%d there. NACK. This has the potential to significantly break backwards- compatibility for users of those cards who are not using udev to maintain consistent device naming (because they only have a single card, for example). I would recommend against applying it for that reason. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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