On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:50:30 -0800 > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Stephen Hemminger >> <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:29:40 -0500 >> > "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> 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 >> > >> > At least on ubuntu/debian the name whitelist is: >> > >> > >> > # device name whitelist >> > KERNEL!="eth*|ath*|wlan*[0-9]|msh*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end" >> > >> > So bond or bridge don't match and don't get tampered with. >> > >> > The problem is that wlan* device names are used for both hardware and virtual >> > devices. Udev scripts can be fixed "do the right thing" but there is not sufficient >> > information for the script to decide how to attach persistent name. >> > What values from sysfs (ie attributes) should script be using? This probably >> > means that additional attributes needed to be added to wireless device infrastructure >> > in kernel. >> >> We could likely use the new SET_NETDEV_DEVTYPE() but I have yet to see >> where this is exported. It must be there somewhere. > > Both devices would have same type? don't see how that would help > > Imagine a system with two Atheros cards, and 2 SSID's per card. > How would devices be identified by udev to assign persistent name? Yeah sorry, I was thinking of just wlan0++ for a new wlan net device type, but yeah keeping them persistent would require more work. Luis -- 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
