Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754146Ab0GIINe (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:13:34 -0400 Received: from mx01.bfk.de ([193.227.124.2]:42584 "EHLO mx01.bfk.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753133Ab0GIINc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:13:32 -0400 To: Kay Sievers Cc: "Loke\, Chetan" , Matt Domsch , Michael Di Domenico , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nic enumeration References: <20100708012120.GB11419@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <82tyo9i0n2.fsf@mid.bfk.de> From: Florian Weimer Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:13:18 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Kay Sievers's message of "Fri\, 9 Jul 2010 09\:57\:14 +0200") Message-ID: <827hl5hy3l.fsf@mid.bfk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1210 Lines: 28 * Kay Sievers: > Anyway, it's not recommended to do anything like this. On many distros > it will cause trouble with the network scripts/services, which are run > again for already active interfaces. Using the udevadm trigger > 'hammer' on the running system may lead to all sorts of problems. This > tool is usually only used at coldplug time during bootup. There was a time when the Debian scripts were pretty robust. But maybe we've just been lucky. > In general, there is no safe way, or a tool to do this. You have to > know very well what you are doing. It's pretty common, that you > disconnect yourself from a remote box if you try anything like this. Yeah, but there should be a way to do this over OOB management, without requiring a reboot. 8-( -- Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstra?e 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- 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/