Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:46499 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756266AbZLHUPM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:15:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:05:04 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: Stephen Hemminger , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: wireless device and udev Message-ID: <20091208200504.GC16303@tuxdriver.com> References: <20091207172616.7470ed2b@nehalam> <20091208142940.GB15172@tuxdriver.com> <20091208104336.3d5a7fb4@nehalam> <20091208185222.GA16303@tuxdriver.com> <1260300551.32227.1.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1260300551.32227.1.camel@johannes.local> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:29:11PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 13:52 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > > So, probably we need to map from the wlanX name to the phyY name, > > then determine whether or not this is the first wlanX for phyY. > > If not, then the name should be left alone. > > > > Now, how do we figure out how many wlanX's belong to phyY? > > And what's the "first" one? :) I suppose I was figuring that if there was only one, it was the first. :-) But you're right, I suppose that could be racy... > ls /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/net/ > > will give you the list of interface associated with this device. Cool... -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.