service netif restart [iface] runs a wpa_supplicant twice

[Adrian Chadd]

OK, so where's the other path for invoking wpa_supplicant?


-a

On 1 November 2013 13:35, clutton <clutton at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 13:02 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> What's running the other copy?
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2013 4:00 PM, "clutton" <clutton at zoho.com> wrote:
>>         On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 12:33 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>         > On 1 November 2013 12:16, Bernhard Schmidt
>>         <bschmidt at 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.
>
> devd:
>
> notify 0 {
>         match "system"          "IFNET";
>         match "subsystem"       "!usbus[0-9]+";
>         match "type"            "ATTACH";
>         action "/etc/pccard_ether $subsystem start";
> };
>