Hi This is v5 of the netdev naming-policy series. You can find v4 here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1668161 Changes since v4: - none This series implements a new sysfs attribute for netdevs called "name_assign_type". It provides an integer that describes where an interface name comes from. See Patch #1 for a description of this attribute. It is modelled after the existing "addr_assign_type" attribute. The main use-case is to allow udev to skip applying reliable ifnames to virtual devices. For instance, if wifi-P2P devices are created, wpas already provides a suitable naming-policy and udev shouldn't touch these devices. Same is true for other virtual devices. The idea is that if a device-name was provided by user-space, we should always prefer fixing this naming-policy instead of making udev rename the device. For kernel provided names that's hardly possible, though. Providing the naming-policy source via sysfs is thus a simple way to see whether renames are needed. Additionally, this field allows to detect whether a netdev has been manually renamed, which is quite useful for debugging and during crash-recovery. Furthermore, it fixes real udev bugs if a netdev is already renamed in the initrd and udev only runs in the real root. Detecting renames avoids overwriting custom user provided names. Thanks David David Herrmann (4): net: add name_assign_type netdev attribute mac80211: set NET_NAME_USER for user-space created ifs ath6kl: set NET_NAME_USER for P2P ifs brcmfmac: set NET_NAME_USER for P2P ifs drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c | 5 ++++- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.h | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/core.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/p2p.c | 1 + include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 ++ include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h | 4 ++++ net/core/dev.c | 7 +++++++ net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 ++ net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 ++ net/mac80211/cfg.c | 2 +- net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 1 + net/mac80211/iface.c | 2 ++ net/mac80211/main.c | 2 +- 13 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1 -- 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
