On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:34:22PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:11:28AM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The default interface name of the ipw2X00 driver is, has always been and > > > will continue to be, eth%d. > > > > It is and has always been eth%d for a stupid reason. That's why I > > changed it to wlan%d in the debian official package. > > And here I thought Debian was a distribution which did not needlessly > change upstream policies.
Debian is a distribution which tries to provide good software, implying changes if necessary. Wireless interfaces should be called wlan%d, not eth%d, and upstream doesn't want to change because "There are fewer compatability issues with existing distributions by defaulting to eth%d vs. wlan%d." [1] Debian does support wlan%d interfaces without any known problem. If there were any, I'd have gotten bug reports about it. On the other hand, i know some people annoyed by the eth%d default for wireless interfaces. > You are aware that a) that will mean all existing documentation on the > ipw2100 and ipw2200 drivers will not work for Debian users The ipw2200 documentation in Debian is updated to fit Debian's parameter. > and b) that when the drivers is merged into the mainline kernel people will > no longer use the seperate ipw2100/ipw2200 packages and suddenly have their > system break because the device will use its standard name again? I'll encourage Debian kernel maintainers to make the adequate changes. As I said earlier, Debian is also about providing good software, making additional changes from upstream if necessary, and I think Debian should generally push the use of wlan%d name for wireless interfaces instead of the upstream defaults, and try to push upstream to make the changes as well. Mike PS: Why bringing that on debian-devel instead of filing a bug first, if you're so annoyed ? [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9651220 ; there also have been numerous messages asking for a change of the default value on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
