From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>,
Johannes berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: set NET_NAME_USER for user-space created ifs
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:47:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1393512434-1325-3-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393512434-1325-1-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
The nl80211 interface allows creating new netdevs from user-space. The
name is *always* provided by user-space, so we should set NET_NAME_USER to
provide that information via sysfs.
This allows udev to not rename dynamically created wifi devices (like wifi
P2P devices).
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
---
net/mac80211/iface.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index ce1c443..35561bd 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1620,6 +1620,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
+ IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_HEADROOM;
ndev->needed_tailroom = IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM;
+ ndev->name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER;
ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
if (ret < 0) {
free_netdev(ndev);
--
1.9.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 14:47 [PATCH 0/4] Provide netdev naming-policy via sysfs David Herrmann
2014-02-27 14:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: add name_assign_type netdev attribute David Herrmann
2014-02-27 14:47 ` David Herrmann [this message]
2014-02-27 14:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: set NET_NAME_USER for user-space created ifs Johannes Berg
2014-02-27 14:56 ` David Herrmann
2014-02-27 16:18 ` Johannes Berg
2014-02-27 17:14 ` David Herrmann
2014-02-27 14:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] ath6kl: set NET_NAME_USER for P2P ifs David Herrmann
2014-02-27 15:27 ` Kalle Valo
2014-02-27 16:13 ` Kalle Valo
2014-02-27 14:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] brcmfmac: " David Herrmann
2014-02-27 17:30 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-02-27 15:47 ` [PATCH 0/4] Provide netdev naming-policy via sysfs Tom Gundersen
2014-03-01 14:19 ` Tom Gundersen
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