wiphy physical device name alters when doing manual testing #54
Description
Description
When doing the ping test manually (without using verify.sh
) , we have to assign different physical devices into seperate network namespace. Using the command indicated in README.md
like the following.
$ sudo iw phy phy0 set netns name ns0
$ sudo iw phy phy1 set netns name ns1
$ sudo iw phy phy2 set netns name ns2
However, after I remove vwifi kernel module and register it into kernel again, the number of wiphy's name changes everytime I reload vwifi.
$ sudo iw dev
phy#32
Interface owl2
ifindex 36
wdev 0x2000000001
addr 00:6f:77:6c:32:00
type managed
phy#31
Interface owl1
ifindex 35
wdev 0x1f00000001
addr 00:6f:77:6c:31:00
type managed
phy#30
Interface owl0
ifindex 34
wdev 0x1e00000001
addr 00:6f:77:6c:30:00
type managed
We can see that wiphy's name changes from #0, #1, #2
to #30, #31, #32
, and the number will become larger if I repeat the above actions more times.
It becomes troublesome when doing manual testing because we have to remember different number everytime.
I suggest we can fixed the naming of wiphy physical device.
For example when we have n
wiphy, we can make sure the name of them are phy#0, phy#1 ,..., phy#n-1
Possible approach
Instead of using NULL
in wiphy_new_nm
for the default naming phy%d
, we can assign each wiphy a index and use it as the requested_name
of wiphy_new_nm
Line 1811 in 20d4a42