Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: use "firewire%d" instead of "eth%d" asinterface name

[Stefan Richter]

Christian Kujau wrote at LKML:
> If the patch will be accepted at all and it's not too late to ask: I'd 
> vote for fw%d as well, "firefire" just looks too long, for me at least. 

I think I'll leave the driver as it is.
As I just noticed, we would lose interface renaming by udev.
>From udev/extras/rule_generator/75-persistent-net-generator.rules:

  # device name whitelist
  KERNEL!="eth*|ath*|wlan*[0-9]|msh*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

Besides, if we can we should avoid fw%d because this will clash with
udev rules which match KERNEL=="fw*", as in
udev/rules/redhat/40-redhat.rules.
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