Re: Renaming hci interfaces with udev

[Andrej Rosano <andrejro@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:34:38PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 10:37 +0200, Andrej Rosano wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would like to change the default name of bluetooth interfaces (hci0, hci1, ...)
> > using udev rules.
> 
> Could I ask why you want to do that?

I have more than one bt dongle connected to the box and I would like to assign always
the same bluetooth name (the one set with hciconfig hciX name ...), ex:

the one with BD_ADDR=xx:yy:zz:00:00:01  ->  foo
the one with BD_ADDR=xx:yy:zz:00:00:02  ->  bar
...


If one could use the udev persistent rules like with ethernet interfaces:

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hci*", ATTR{address}=="xx:yy:zz:00:00:01", NAME="hci0"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hci*", ATTR{address}=="xx:yy:zz:00:00:02", NAME="hci1"
...

and then set the appropriate bluetooth name:

hciconfig hci0 name foo
hciconfig hci1 name bar
...

Currently I am using a script to do that.

Regards,
Andrej

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Andrej Rosano                                               <andrejro@gmail.com>
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