Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2014-02-27

Re: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211: set NET_NAME_USER for user-space created ifs

From: David Herrmann <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-27 14:56:15
Also in: lkml, netdev

Hi

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Johannes Berg
[off-list ref] wrote:
Given the premise of your patches,
quoted
+++ 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.
Whoops, yeah, same issue as with ath6kl where I fixed it with a
separate "name_assign_type" argument. I will do the same here for v2.

Thanks
David
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