service netif restart [iface] runs a wpa_supplicant twice

[clutton]

On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 23:50 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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";
> > };
> >


What do you mean?
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