On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:26:16PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The default udev persistent network rules based on hardware mac id doesn't > work well when multiple SSID's are created on an access-point. The command > iw phy phy0 interface add wlan1 type managed > > is supposed to make a device name wlan1, but udev sees that it has the same > mac address as wlan0 and gets confused leaving the device named wlan1_rename > > It looks like wlanX is breaking assumptions of existing udev persistent network > device name generation rules. Perhaps there needs to be special case for wlanX > devices? Yes, probably so. But what would it be? Factoring-in SSID is clearly not right for the usual case (i.e. one interface on a mobile device). I'm not sure what else one could use as a key. What does udev do for bridge, bond, or vlan devices? Don't those share MAC addresses with the underlying physical device? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
