Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755815AbXHBWAw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:00:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754401AbXHBWAn (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:00:43 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.186]:1376 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754216AbXHBWAm (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:00:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=NeEeK1VSMwTrlPhkqYunxGlnMkumGQMPuJiaoqMADbSN5/R4JNP1oDFG3rBD1gPqYJRGGA796L6boVZkAG3SEPr5M7+O4e26YwnPCeHQ2w7evg9uFCYQKMK3Gj4ykTiwN7crL1SEkrSZRVNRzyhQ+Q3XVwRgFzMMWtnRmAOs9Bo= Message-ID: <3ae72650708021500v3de84e6vdf15d0a9e5baf661@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:00:41 +0200 From: "Kay Sievers" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering Cc: "Michael Tokarev" , "Herbert Rosmanith" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200708021056.l72Au722008603@wildsau.enemy.org> <46B1D708.9040106@msgid.tls.msk.ru> X-Google-Sender-Auth: f0159f90f1f4d556 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 22 On 8/2/07, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > I know I have seen my kernel outputting "A renamed to B". Since you two > however wanted that information in the first place, I grepped a bit > around, and actually found, (drumroll), that the SUSE kernel has had a > proper patch for [I can't remember how long] quite some time. (At least > one distro which does the right thing.) I copied it below. > e1000: eth3: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection > dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth3' to 'eth0' > dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth3' to 'ethxx3' > eth3 renamed to ethxx3 I just made udev when it successfully renamed an interface to write that to the kernel log, so dmesg will show: <6>udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 Kay - 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/