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When a laptop has several removable net devices of different kind (wired/wirelss in particular), it is much easier to handle the configuration when there is a clear namespace separation. Both wavelan_cs (name=name1[,name2[,name3[,name4]]] module param) and wvlan_cs (eth=0 module param) have the ability to use a device name outside of the usual ethXX hierarchy. Now that the wvlan_cs driver is being phased out by the orinoco_cs driver, it would be really nice if orinoco_cs supported this feature as well.
Created attachment 89540 [details] Quick patch to add names= parameter. I wrote a quick patch that adds a names= module parameter (similar to that of wavelan_cs).
This needs to be done upstream.
Well, without that change *RedHat* is the one removing the functionality that used to exist in 8.0 (when the wvlan_cs driver was used). Also, I have no experience with getting things into the kernel... Also, the way I read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/bug_status.cgi, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" means that it was actually reported upstream and so far it was not...