[Ieee80211-devel] Re: eth0 vs. wlan0 [was Re: ieee80211 patches]

[Jeff G. <jg...@po...>]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I noticed that wireless patches are now in the mainline. That is good,
> patches are getting smaller, but it is going to make future user
> interface changes harder; and thats very bad.
> 
> There are good reasons to have wireless interfaces as wlanX, with
> tcpdump showing wireless packetes, etc; but current patches name it
> ethX, and you get plain ethernet packets on tcpdump. Are we going to
> keep showing wireless interfaces as ethernet ones forever, or do we
> plan to switch to wlanX? If we decide to switch, we should either
> switch before 2.6.14, or disable wireless before 2.6.14 so that we do
> not confuse users too badly...


We will continue to develop ieee80211 in the mainline kernel.  2.6.14 is 
not some magic barrier that prevents major changes.

	Jeff