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Subject: Re: New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input
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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