On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:10 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > > We cannot do this because otherwise operations you attempt to do one one > > PHY will race with re-creating of the same phy index. For the same > > reason, interface indexes aren't reused for netdevs. > > > > If this bothers you so much, you can easily write a udev rule that > > renames all your phys to "myphy" or whatever. > > Sorry about that. > > Would a similar patch be acceptable that just set the name to the first > available phyX, but left the index to increment monotomically as it does > now be OK? Actually, right now it doesn't even allow you to use a "phy%d" name, which is because I don't want (sysfs, debugfs) errors coming from doing "iw phy0 set name phy1" and then plugging in a new device ... In doing that, I manage to avoid having to allocate two different numbers... I suppose it'd be possible to treat this more like interfaces. Want to also make it per net namespace? ;-) > I'd really like to not have to deal with udev if possible! It's really not very hard, you just need a rule that reacts to adding a new phy, and calls "iw phy#7 set name myphy" :-) 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
