Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264469AbTE1BOz (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 21:14:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264471AbTE1BOz (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 21:14:55 -0400 Received: from h80ad26af.async.vt.edu ([128.173.38.175]:9088 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264469AbTE1BOy (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 21:14:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200305280127.h4S1RLN6002823@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Jim Keniston Cc: LKML , Anton Blanchard , "Feldman, Scott" , Greg KH , Jeff Garzik , Phil Cayton , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , shemminger@osdl.org, kenistoj@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Net device error logging (revised) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 May 2003 16:17:48 PDT." <3ED3F21C.B3052C8C@us.ibm.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <3ECF0F64.AAD25389@us.ibm.com> <200305240805.h4O85f9O009429@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <3ED3F21C.B3052C8C@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_5284528P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 21:27:20 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1447 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_5284528P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:17:48 PDT, Jim Keniston said: > Was the name slippage due to the intervention of an administrative utility? > Just curious. No, it was due to the *lack* of intervention. Depending where I am, my laptop can have up to 4 ethernet interfaces - onboard, docking station, wireless card, and the ethernet side of the Xircom ethernet/modem card. And of course 2.4 and 2.5 kernels number them differntly, and if I'm booting single-user /sbin/nameif doesn't get run yes, etc etc etc. So if I see 'eth2' in a dmesg, I can usually be sure it's not the onboard NIC, but it could be any one of the other 3 and require some work to disambiguate. (Yes, 'nameif' does a *wonderful* job of usually keeping all 4 nailed down to save my sanity - it's just that it seems to fail to do so at the times it really matters. ;) --==_Exmh_5284528P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+1BB4cC3lWbTT17ARAhjzAJ9P5N/mPbK5zXOoPjow5ZQsKs/L/wCcDRSV 7ampCNivW4smXdPBwNSdpLg= =uPKm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_5284528P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/