Subject: Re: Device naming for wireless NICs...

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:25:15 -0500

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