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Subject: Re: [wireless] wireless:  Keep phy name consistent across module
 reloads.
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:57 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> 
> It adds needless pain to user-space scripts to change the name
> of the phy on each module reload.  Instead, find the first
> index.

Crap, I clearly missed this patch, John, please revert this.

We cannot do this because otherwise operations you attempt to do one one
PHY will race with re-creating of the same phy index. For the same
reason, interface indexes aren't reused for netdevs.

If this bothers you so much, you can easily write a udev rule that
renames all your phys to "myphy" or whatever.

johannes