On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:33:34PM -0400, thus spake George Nychis: > I haven't narrowed it down to the exact build date where this breaks, > but I know that it works in compat-wireless-2011-05-01, and not in > compat-wireless-2011-05-11+ (including last night's build). I had > trouble building compat-wireless-2011-05-04/05 so it was hard for me > to narrow it down. The parsing of the format of interface name has been reworked in some recent commit in the kernel. Consequently, several calls to dev_alloc_name (which does the actual parsing of the format string and allocation of a number) have been removed from several kernel components and the parsing and number allocation is done in some unique common place down the road. The problem is, compat-wireless doesn't add this bit of "common place" code, but still removes the original calls to dev_alloc_name. This is something that should be added to compat/, but in the meantime, you can apply the attached patch. Ignacy -- A person is shit's way of making more shit. -- S. Barnett, anthropologist.
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index 8531915..27264de 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1173,6 +1173,10 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name, ndev->needed_tailroom = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM; #endif + ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name); + if (ret < 0) + goto fail; + ieee80211_assign_perm_addr(local, ndev, type); memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy));
