On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:25 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > > 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 tried rename few months ago, to rename back to phy0, and it failed > for no obvious reason..so I just assumed rename didn't work at all. > Would you like a patch to print something in kernel logs when someone > tries to rename to phy%d? Well, if you want to work on getting an unused phy%d name this would be kinda pointless, no? > > I suppose it'd be possible to treat this more like interfaces. Want to > > also make it per net namespace? ;-) > > Probably best for all involved if I don't mess with namespaces right now, > but I'll be happy to work on (or test) a patch to find the first un-used phyX name, > if that's what you mean. I think that'd be OK, even if maybe at this point a little unexpected? 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
