ATTRS{type} matching in 70-persistent-net.rules

Binary package hint: udev

In case one is using hostapd, the automatic persistent-net generation is wrong in that it makes the rename rules match with ATTRS{type}=="1". While this measure is effective against matching the wifi* interfaces, /lib/udev/write_net_rules is still adding such a rule for the wlan*ap interface created by hostapd. I have myself changed the line in /lib/udev/write_net_rules as follows, so as to ensure that no wlan* eventually gets renamed to wlan*ap after what hostap creates a wlan*apap, hence a new persistent rules, and so on.

--- write_net_rules.old 2008-02-07 01:13:31.000000000 +0100
+++ write_net_rules 2008-02-07 01:13:16.000000000 +0100
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 # the DRIVERS key is needed to not match bridges and VLAN sub-interfaces
 match="DRIVERS==\"?*\", ATTRS{address}==\"$MAC_ADDR\""
 if [ $basename = "ath" -o $basename = "wlan" ]; then
- match="$match, ATTRS{type}==\"1\"" # do not match the wifi* interfaces
+ match="$match, ATTRS{type}==\"$(sysread type)\"" # do not match the wifi* interfaces
 fi

 write_rule "$match" "$INTERFACE" "$COMMENT"