On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:50:27PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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]

And all upstream drivers do use eth%d.

> I'll encourage Debian kernel maintainers to make the adequate changes.

No, it's a totally arbitrary and pointless change.


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