Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:16:01 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
       Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>, Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
       Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>,
       Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net
	device sysfs entries
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote:
> Network devices from sub-network namespaces appear in sysfs
> with a name that looks like this: device_name@netns_id
> eg: lo@3, eth0@4e

How does the default udev rules as shipped by most distros handle the
renaming of the network device if the MAC address is duplicated like it
will be for these eth devices?

thanks,

greg k-h
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