Given the premise of your patches, > +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c > @@ -1620,6 +1620,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name, > + IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_HEADROOM; > ndev->needed_tailroom = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM; > > + ndev->name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER; this is wrong because we call this in main.c with a "wlan%d" argument for the name, which gets expanded. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html