Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758580Ab0GHUnb (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:43:31 -0400 Received: from exprod6og105.obsmtp.com ([64.18.1.189]:38043 "HELO exprod6og105.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754803Ab0GHUn3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:43:29 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 426 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:43:29 EDT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: nic enumeration Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 16:36:18 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100708012120.GB11419@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: nic enumeration Thread-Index: AcseO/cQnpmwwIFySyqYOu+cugItdAAdmEEQ References: <20100708012120.GB11419@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> From: "Loke, Chetan" To: "Matt Domsch" , "Michael Di Domenico" Cc: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jul 2010 20:36:20.0081 (UTC) FILETIME=[38DD1610:01CB1EDD] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 733 Lines: 24 > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch > Sent: July 07, 2010 9:21 PM > > http://lwn.net/Articles/356900/ > > And on a system where you can use udev rules, the > 70-persistent-net.rules file can be used to make them constant, by > using the MAC address to force the names to be what you want. > Ok, but can we achieve the renaming w/o a reboot? > -- > Matt Domsch Chetan Loke -- 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/