Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:2937 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751455AbXB0CGC (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:06:02 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:33:20 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Larry Finger , Pavel Roskin , Alex Davis , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix Message-ID: <20070227013320.GA4476@tuxdriver.com> References: <510326.55988.qm@web50211.mail.yahoo.com> <20070224233001.3ok4k0c00ksos4sw@webmail.spamcop.net> <45E112F7.9090908@lwfinger.net> <20070226150241.1b5b63b2@freekitty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070226150241.1b5b63b2@freekitty> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:02:41PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > This was hashed out on netdev 2+ years ago and decided that both ethernet > and wireless devices should show up as 'eth%d'. For inclusion d80211 needs to conform > to existing mainline kernel practice. If this means breaking the expectation of older > out of tree wireless support (ie madwifi), sorry. Any chance you could provide a pointer to that discussion in the archives? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com