From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:39790 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751016AbXCZLYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:24:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow wiphy renaming From: Johannes Berg To: linux-wireless Cc: "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <1174906033.1536.10.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1172672119.5015.11.camel@johannes.berg> <1172748592.11911.32.camel@johannes.berg> <1174906033.1536.10.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TuDPDodm8sUpCGsm4TDK" Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:23:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1174908231.1536.14.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-TuDPDodm8sUpCGsm4TDK Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:47 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Also, it changes the default wiphy name to just "phy%d in anticipation > of Greg KH's sysfs change that will add the class name in front of the > directory name. That seems to be http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.2= 1-rc4-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-driver-core-fix-namespace-issue-with-dev= ices-assigned-to-classes.patch Until that patch goes in we'll just have to live with not being able to name a 802.11 phy "subsystem", "power", "driver", "uevent" or the same as a netdev associated with it. After that patch, that ought to be possible again though I haven't verified that by running it :) johannes --=-TuDPDodm8sUpCGsm4TDK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGB61G/ETPhpq3jKURArAgAKCiR78O2PTJmCEaDsE8uuoW/m9RYACgrdz2 mdE8wwjHWEaCyg0J50mH2rg= =QjCd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TuDPDodm8sUpCGsm4TDK--