Re: wireless device and udev

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:29:11PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 13:52 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > So, probably we need to map from the wlanX name to the phyY name,
> > then determine whether or not this is the first wlanX for phyY.
> > If not, then the name should be left alone.
> > 
> > Now, how do we figure out how many wlanX's belong to phyY?
> 
> And what's the "first" one? :)

I suppose I was figuring that if there was only one, it was the
first. :-)  But you're right, I suppose that could be racy...

> ls /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/net/
> 
> will give you the list of interface associated with this device.

Cool...

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