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

[Alejandro B. <abo...@li...>]

> > Unfortunately, if it stays pretending it is ethernet
> adapter, there's
> > no way to see wireless managment packets with wlan... that seems
> > wrong.
> Theres a certian amount of user confusion by not making the wireless
> interfaces blatantly wireless, but it doesn't hurt
> functionality at all.

Fact is, couple of thousands use IPW2200, therefore ethX. I don't want to
see all those users lost by the fact that something really cosmetic was
changed. Yes, wlan0 sounds more "organized" but we should just keep having
what we have seen all the time.

+complains and questions about it in the ML's.

.Alejandro

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