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
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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