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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:30:01 -0500
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
Cc: larry.finger@lwfinger.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix
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Quoting Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>:

> This patch will allow you to specify the interface name prefix of wireless
> devices.
>
> On my machine, the wireless devices under the bcm43xx driver are named
> 'ethx'; I
> would really rather have them called 'wlanx', like bcm43xx-d80211 does.

You can use ifrename from wireless tools.  Use the option that checks the
ethtool information.

Jean has just released Wireless Tools 29-pre12, which can read symlinks in
sysfs.  That would allow renaming d80211 based network devices by checking the
"driver" symlinks in sysfs.  I asked Jean to do that with bcm43xx_d80211 in
mind.

It's not that I'm against your patch.  I'm rather ambivalent.  But I think using
ifrename could reduce the need in kernel support for interface renaming.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin