Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 13:02:33 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: clutton <clutton@zoho.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: service netif restart [iface] runs a wpa_supplicant twice Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomTsNH=%2BE_HXrSBfq-FLfw_5FqejW2NkH%2BLTKVFMSda4A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1383336004.13657.18.camel@eva02.mbsd> References: <1382572583.1862.39.camel@eva02.mbsd> <CAJ-VmonD%2B0rEAYm0Zk5HviciJEngTQ2j5xcKPzuNXBH8CWNA7g@mail.gmail.com> <1382589020.1846.36.camel@eva02.mbsd> <CAJ-Vmok=-bWq-eohdJt%2BwcTrJ43cak_sQu_hxO%2Bzt7HauGgg5g@mail.gmail.com> <1383331203.12614.1.camel@eva02.mbsd> <CAAgh0_aq7Mw-4JA6sEa2MoaqjivSNTKkRnfJwuct%2B=v-o4U2kg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonRPHaYAKTm8V5Rj2Uc_ONqbTu2wxZrTM%2Buwpkc7RpLTg@mail.gmail.com> <1383336004.13657.18.camel@eva02.mbsd>
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What's running the other copy? Adrian On Nov 1, 2013 4:00 PM, "clutton" <clutton@zoho.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 12:33 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > On 1 November 2013 12:16, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> > wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > Uhm, I'm confused by this. Would you mind explaining it in a bit more > detail? > > > > > > -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. >
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