From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0'
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:18:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031121051838.GA13127@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34qwy5mm7.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de) said:
> > There are some situations where you have to jump through hoops
> > because it can't atomically swap two device names (i.e.,
> > eth0 <-> eth1, but the code itself seems to work ok in use here...
>
> Adding such swapping should not be very hard if someone is motivated.
> Interestingly you're the first to complain about it missing...
When I looked at it, I assumed it was a limitation of the
kernel interface, in that it only operated on one device at
a time... or are you talking about just doing the switch in
nameif itself with a temporary device name?
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-21 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Ua09.2Wt.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <Uajn.3lb.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-21 5:14 ` [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0' Andi Kleen
2003-11-21 5:18 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2003-11-21 19:11 Jean Tourrilhes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-21 3:13 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 3:28 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-11-21 3:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-21 17:22 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 3:13 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 3:28 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-11-21 3:40 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-21 17:22 ` Jean Tourrilhes
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20031121051838.GA13127@devserv.devel.redhat.com \
--to=notting@redhat.com \
--cc=ak@muc.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.