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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:54:50 -0500
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix
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On 2/28/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 08:44 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:
>
> > What's wrong with wlan#?
>
> Some people are anal about changing user-visible properties when one
> driver replaces another.

Nothing is wrong with it, that's perfectly fine. This is just a matter
of adopting a default convention for all wireless devices and sticking
to it. Old drivers used eth%d as the drivers mangled ethernet frames
and not wireless frames. With mac80211 wmaster handles wireless frames
directly but wlan%d handles ethernet frames. If we care more about
announcing a device is a wireless device is WLAN then lets go with
wlan%d, if we care more about implying what type of frames are being
passed to the device then eth%d seems more appropriate.

  Luis