Renaming hci interfaces with udev
Hi,
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.
Regards,
Andrej
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Andrej Rosano <[email protected]> 0x7B470744 E5DF 7810 AD63 A215 2D0E AF56 53C7 A2CB 7B47 0744
Marcel Holtmann
maintainerHi Andrej,
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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:
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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
Quoted 3 lines · Andrej Rosano
Hi,
I would like to change the default name of bluetooth interfaces (hci0, hci1, ...) using udev rules.
Could I ask why you want to do that?
Quoted 6 lines · Bastien Nocera
Quoted 3 lines · Andrej Rosano
Hi,
I would like to change the default name of bluetooth interfaces (hci0, hci1, ...) using udev rules.Could I ask why you want to do that?
I have more than one bt dongle connected to the box and I would like to assign always the same bluetooth name (the one set with hciconfig hciX name ...), ex:
the one with BD_ADDR=xx:yy:zz:00:00:01 -> foo the one with BD_ADDR=xx:yy:zz:00:00:02 -> bar
...
If one could use the udev persistent rules like with ethernet interfaces:
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hci*", ATTR{address}=="xx:yy:zz:00:00:01", NAME="hci0" ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hci*", ATTR{address}=="xx:yy:zz:00:00:02", NAME="hci1"
...
and then set the appropriate bluetooth name:
hciconfig hci0 name foo
hciconfig hci1 name bar
...
Currently I am using a script to do that.
Regards,
Andrej
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Andrej Rosano <[email protected]> 0x7B470744 E5DF 7810 AD63 A215 2D0E AF56 53C7 A2CB 7B47 0744
Marcel Holtmann
maintainerHi Andrej,
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I would like to change the default name of bluetooth interfaces (hci0, hci1, ...) using udev rules.
Could I ask why you want to do that?
I have more than one bt dongle connected to the box and I would like to assign always the same bluetooth name (the one set with hciconfig hciX name ...), ex:
the one with BD_ADDR=xx:yy:zz:00:00:01 -> foo the one with BD_ADDR=xx:yy:zz:00:00:02 -> bar...
If one could use the udev persistent rules like with ethernet interfaces:
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hci*", ATTR{address}=="xx:yy:zz:00:00:01", NAME="hci0" ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="hci*", ATTR{address}=="xx:yy:zz:00:00:02", NAME="hci1"
...
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and then set the appropriate bluetooth name:
hciconfig hci0 name foo
hciconfig hci1 name bar
...Currently I am using a script to do that.
and actually bluetoothd is doing that for you no matter what the device name is. You just have to set the name once using the D-Bus interface.
Regards
Marcel