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Subject: Re: Renaming hci interfaces with udev
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Andrej Rosano <andrejro@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:31:35 +0200
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Hi Andrej,

> I would like to change the default name of bluetooth interfaces (hci0, hci1, ...)
> using udev rules.
> 
> While with wlan usb dongles it works with the line:
>     KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="foo0"
> the analogous for the bt:
>     KERNEL=="hci*", NAME="foo0"
> doesn't work, while
>     KERNEL=="hci*", RUN+="/usr/bin/touch /tmp/foo"
> works.
> 
> I'm using kernel 2.6.30.1, udev 125 and bluez 4.46.

we don't support renaming HCI devices. However feel free to send a
kernel patch to enable it.

Regards

Marcel