From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 1 20:00:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C4213B for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clutton@zoho.com) Received: from sender1.zohomail.com (sender1.zohomail.com [72.5.230.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671A524BE for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:00:13 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=zapps768; d=zoho.com; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version; b=kYOUiWaFjw0ddF527r6i+g98Nbvv8f8Bhmw7CPkrGyDoUYtkt8rj0dNziMOuSUabNe2mCDgTonQ4 LnaIQZqyR1zS0YK5huUAWrFHKdlC7+lXfxSKGRBl5iKzLymtJNNe Received: from [192.168.11.5] (213.111.120.236 [213.111.120.236]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1383336011049591.6342966721718; Fri, 1 Nov 2013 13:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: service netif restart [iface] runs a wpa_supplicant twice From: clutton To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <1382572583.1862.39.camel@eva02.mbsd> <1382589020.1846.36.camel@eva02.mbsd> <1383331203.12614.1.camel@eva02.mbsd> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-X1xQAmpEcOdnYv12MzDa" Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 22:00:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1383336004.13657.18.camel@eva02.mbsd> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Zoho-Virus-Status: 1 X-ZohoMail: Ss SS_10 UW UB UW UB SGR3_1_25103_58 X-ZohoMail-Owner: <1383336004.13657.18.camel@eva02.mbsd>+zmo_0_ X-ZohoMail-Sender: 213.111.120.236 X-ZohoMailClient: External X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:00:13 -0000 --=-X1xQAmpEcOdnYv12MzDa Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 12:33 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 1 November 2013 12:16, Bernhard Schmidt wrote= : >=20 > > That actually is a design question I once wrapped my head around > > unsuccessfully. The lines above are responsible for configuring wlan0 > > if it is created, eg. > > ifconfig wlan0 destroy > > ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 > > will invoke above code which will then invoke pccard_ether. Changing > > the code as you intent to will prevent this. > > > > Someone should step up an decide what is supposed to happen, should > > wlan0 in that case be configured as stated in rc.conf, or not? > > > > The actual issue though, is in wpa_supplicant itself. It has code to > > prevent it being started twice, but that doesn't kick in because the > > instances are started to fast and we loose (have not yet setup enough) > > information in our net code. >=20 > Uhm, I'm confused by this. Would you mind explaining it in a bit more det= ail? >=20 >=20 > -a The devd runs a pccard_ether script when the IFNET interface appears. In some rare cases you can see two copies of the wpa_sopplicant. --=-X1xQAmpEcOdnYv12MzDa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJSdAhEAAoJECNkWbjnbjuifxQP/A9v06ssmQIGYwM72aBRZb+5 s8zYErVMZXN1MkA669Et3N9BVVytez28AbewShMfuqBL+zL3WFoNhPRmqkKTjew4 plAutlGLVyqP5syJx5+af/eWax8m9bIvHU/FyNgP+7d1DbnXmuh0/RI6ECcCBx5k +dEa85liRhp5SM8K4YOEe6FFwCfCQQd2FVOGMM+LAF5G9nNQ/0CKFs0EFjwiv4OP dHCnix4S2qNSP5zYsv5LHaSOkX3RcvcqlnYiN1HXZdXGUtPkuQiBFmS19FbOBREh 6uCMYrdFx+02CC0m2bzhAQ1n3gfn4y2rw8FPhWG4e2SP71GGBzm4AmLw+nFVa/nj 2K3U06u83A05NZjo6UAhgpHsuSK3OgF805H7yovc/zRwFfSpP5aDHJdfAjx5Ji4B 7M0xdPW2zsOEcbHiA4P2xYYiEfuEKMxQrxwwtbgZ+QGfyjw8eRdvxjxYEcd1upsG kFpg9FKY66Ld9zvWcYfvJ0OkPxUBRBlJCiNWESjCUXVdPFV+qRCTRfpAxPjOJCuK evntX3X/f9hKpxtzLBaFbstUsDnQTnLRZ4kywlTAVRH4btmOWHrXCsYDKS+6RQLi OmszcRdcTiqoDaoT9NECtCc8Rx8Q2lkhM6+5Ps/9Et4zOO9oJ6fDBIBP8ziWvTlr fzFD6nwm4uWZfWZRxtBi =4T0U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-X1xQAmpEcOdnYv12MzDa--