James Ketrenos wrote:
If this topic been hashed a lot already, please let me know the keywords
I might search for in the archives to find the threads.
I've had a few requests by users of the IPW2100 wireless driver to
switch the default interface name to be wlanX vs. ethX. In my prior
searches through the wireless drivers in the 2.6.3 kernel tree, I
couldn't find any that changed from the default.
I lean towards wlan%d, but until we have the generic 802.11 stack going
it's really up to the driver maintainer (you, in this case).
Like Matthew said, any code that assumes a specific interface prefix, be
it eth%d or wlan%d, is buggy. Users are allowed to choose random
interface names for their interfaces, often via nameif(8) program. My
own ethtool program is broken in this regard...
Jeff
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