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authorMarcel Holtmann2009-10-02 07:15:25 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller2009-10-05 09:43:33 +0200
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usbnet: Use wwan%d interface name for mobile broadband devices
Add support for usbnet based devices like CDC-Ether to indicate that they are actually mobile broadband devices. In that case use wwan%d as default interface name. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index ca5ca5ae061d..8124cf16259f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1295,6 +1295,9 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod)
/* WLAN devices should always be named "wlan%d" */
if ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_WLAN) != 0)
strcpy(net->name, "wlan%d");
+ /* WWAN devices should always be named "wwan%d" */
+ if ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_WWAN) != 0)
+ strcpy(net->name, "wwan%d");
/* maybe the remote can't receive an Ethernet MTU */
if (net->mtu > (dev->hard_mtu - net->hard_header_len))