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

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 09:53:26 EST


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

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