Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761070AbXHCHqR (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:46:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750818AbXHCHqH (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:46:07 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:60675 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751861AbXHCHqG (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:46:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:46:05 +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: <1186094979.3443.35.camel@lov.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <200708021056.l72Au722008603@wildsau.enemy.org> <46B1D708.9040106@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <3ae72650708021500v3de84e6vdf15d0a9e5baf661@mail.gmail.com> <1186094979.3443.35.camel@lov.localdomain> 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: 1067 Lines: 35 On Aug 3 2007 00:49, Kay Sievers wrote: >> 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. > >But if you need to swap interface names, you will see the useless >temporary device names. On SUSE, nothing else renames network interfaces >these days, Yeah on SUSE on SUSE. The _user_ may very well swap these, either by using /usr/sbin/ifrename (which is not even from udev!), or doing the magic himself (ioctls, netlink, whatever is needed). Also, it may happen that further things pop up during the two renames, e.g. eth0 renamed to ethxx0 ethxx0: link up ethxx0 renamed to foo0 If only udev were to print it: eth0: RealTek 8139 whatever ethxx0: ink up eth0 renamed to foo0 and you think "what's ethxx0?". 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/