Subject: 3.0.0-rc1: dmesg shows 'wlan%d' instead of 'wlan0'

From: Sergei Trofimovich <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:10:42 +0300

Recently I've noticed small discrepancy in dmesg:

$ { zcat messages.2.gz messages.1.gz; cat messages; } | egrep "(deauthen|Linux version)"
...
May 21 22:01:31 sf kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.39-00004-g29c77fa (slyfox@sf) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Gentoo 4.4.5 p1.2, pie-0.4.5) ) #116 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 19 22:46:16 EEST 2011
May 24 05:37:54 sf kernel: [81845.885094] wlan0: deauthenticated from ...

Jun  1 22:38:38 sf kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 3.0.0-rc1-00035-g79f3f61 (slyfox@sf) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Gentoo 4.4.5 p1.2, pie-0.4.5) ) #118 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 1 22:14:46 EEST 2011
Jun  1 23:41:23 sf kernel: [ 3877.773727] wlan%d: deauthenticating from ...

Jun  1 23:42:16 sf kernel: [    0.000000] Linux version 3.0.0-rc1-00035-g79f3f61-dirty (slyfox@sf) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Gentoo 4.4.5 p1.2, pie-0.4.5) ) #119 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 1 23:35:43 EEST 2011
Jun  2 07:35:10 sf kernel: [ 5972.879970] wlan%d: deauthenticated from ...

Here we see 'wlan0' -> 'wlan%d' switch. I presume those lines go from firmware
(and not from userspace).

The card is an iwl4965

10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)

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  Sergei