From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: set NET_NAME_USER for user-space created ifs
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:53:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1393512787.4648.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393512434-1325-3-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> (sfid-20140227_154844_921310_B406E62F)
Given the premise of your patches,
> +++ 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;
this is wrong because we call this in main.c with a "wlan%d" argument
for the name, which gets expanded.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 14:53 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 ` [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: set NET_NAME_USER for user-space created ifs David Herrmann
2014-02-27 14:53 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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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