On 09/24/2010 02:31 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
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?
I'll give it a try right quick.
Thanks,
Ben
johannes
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