Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759516AbXHBWkN (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:40:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754849AbXHBWkA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:40:00 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:56326 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755015AbXHBWkA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:40:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:39:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Kay Sievers cc: Michael Tokarev , Herbert Rosmanith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering In-Reply-To: <3ae72650708021500v3de84e6vdf15d0a9e5baf661@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200708021056.l72Au722008603@wildsau.enemy.org> <46B1D708.9040106@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <3ae72650708021500v3de84e6vdf15d0a9e5baf661@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1222 Lines: 28 On Aug 3 2007 00:00, Kay Sievers wrote: >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 I think it is helpful to integrate the suse patch rather than to patch udev alone. This way, renames that do not involve udev also show up. Jan -- - 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/