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Date:   Sun, 23 Jul 2023 15:55:26 -0400
From:   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: Nomenclature for USB-connected WiFi devices
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 07:05:40PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On 23.07.23 18:04, Alan Stern wrote:
> > If you've got a WiFi device that connects to the host computer via USB,
> > do you refer to it as a "wireless USB device" or as a "USB wireless
> > device"?
> > 
> > The second would seem to be more logical, by analogy with things like a
> > USB mouse or a USB thumbdrive -- we don't say "mouse USB device" or
> > "thumbdrive USB device"!
> 
> If you are doing this, why not go to USB WiFi? We want to know what
> kind of wireless device it is.

Doing that would require more knowledge than I possess.  :-)

I don't know what kinds of wireless device these different drivers are 
meant for.  Presumably most of them are WiFi, but are all of them?

Besides, if the original authors felt it was appropriate to write 
"wireless USB" instead of "WiFi USB", then most likely they will also 
feel it is appropriate to change the text to "USB wireless" instead of 
"USB WiFi".

Alan Stern