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Date:      Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:10:09 +0200
From:      Milan Obuch <bsd@dino.sk>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input
Message-ID:  <200504201510.10557.bsd@dino.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20050420125714.GE12555@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
References:  <20050419225640.7B92816A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> <20050420125714.GE12555@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>

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On Wednesday 20 April 2005 14:57, Thomas Quinot wrote:
> * Bill Paul, 2005-04-20 :
> > Any suggestions or comments on my mad scheme would be welcome.
>
> I like being able to give a sensible name to ndiscvt'd drivers (eg iwe
> instead of ndis for Intel Wireless Ethernet cards). Currently this
> requires both using the -n argument to ndiscvt and overriding the module
> name in the if_ndis Makefile. It would be nice if this was made a little
> easier.
>
> Thomas.
>

While native solution would be nice, I think this could be easily accomplished 
with interface renaming (ifconfig ndis0 name iwe0).
Milan



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