Am 03.10.19 um 15:44 schrieb Andreas Henriksson:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 03:29:22PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

>> While testing this, I ran
>> rmmod iwldvm iwlwifi
>> modprobe iwlwifi
>>
>> My interface is renamed from wlan0 → wlan1 → wlan2 ...
>> I'm currently at wlan3.
>>
>> iwd seems to be interfering here as well.
>> If I run systemctl stop iwd.service, a rmmod / modprobe results in wlan0.
>> Can you reproduce the issue? Any idea what's going on there?
> 
> Yes and AFAIK this happens unrelated to iwd.
> My suspicion is that the kernel is shit.
> You can probably reuse the wlan0 name by rubbing the kernel in the right
> direction before unloading the driver. eg. Try bringing the interface down
> before rmmod. (Not sure what it takes. Some kernel person might know.)


Interestingly this only seems to happen with iwd installed.
Using NM+wpa_supplicant does not trigger this behavior

> 
> PS. Would be awesome if this could be cherry-picked for next NM upload:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_requests/285
> ;)

Please ping me once it's merged upstream. I can then cherry-pick the
patches.



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