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Re: Device naming for wireless NICs...

To: Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Device naming for wireless NICs...
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:25:15 -0500
Cc: James Ketrenos <jketreno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Matthew Galgoci wrote:
Going forward it might be worth while to standardize all wireless interface 
names, just
to show at a glance that an interface is 802.11x, and also to differentiate the 
fact that
eventually 802.11 will be its own network stack.

I definitely want to standardize on something like wlan%d. We should get that for free when a generic 802.11 stack is in place, which implies that there will be a common wireless helper as a peer to ether_setup() in the current tree.

        Jeff




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