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Topic: what is the exact definition of "UCI identifiers" in UCI System?

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Post #1
longdanie
12 Feb 2015, 10:08

hi, every  one!
I'm new to the Community & OpenWrt System.

I'm confused about "UCI identifiers" , when I leanr "THE UCI System "  on wiki.openwrt.org.

It is important to know that UCI identifiers and config file names may contain only the characters a-z, 0-9 and _. E.g. no hyphens (-) are allowed. Option values may contain any character (as long they are properly quoted).

I thought that no hyphens(-) can be used in UCI identifiers until I read something like this in  http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/wireless"

http://thumbsnap.com/i/gIU7IqBV.png?0212

Is this a mistake or just I misunderstand the "identifiers"?

(Last edited by longdanie on 12 Feb 2015, 11:59)

Post #2
jow
12 Feb 2015, 16:57

Identifiers are section names and option names. The highlighted text is a section type, wl0 would be the name.

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