From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev - udevdb+dev.d changes
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:40:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040331234026.GA13247@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040328184840.GA5877@vrfy.org>
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:14:10PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:48:40PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > o the DEVPATH value is the key for udevdb, but if we rename
> > a netdev, the name is replaced in the kernel, so we add
> > the changed name to the db to match with the remove event.
> >
> > NOTE: The dev.d/ scripts still get the original name from the
> > hotplug call. Should we replace DEVPATH with the new name too?
>
> Yeah, we should.
Ok, I will prepare a patch, now.
> > o We now only add a device to the db, if we have successfully created
> > the main node or successfully renamed a netdev. This is the main part
> > of the patch, cause I needed to clean the retval passing trough all
> > the functions used for node creation.
> >
> > o DEVNODE sounds a bit ugly for netdev's so I exported DEVNAME too.
> > Can we change the name?
>
> Can you think of a better name?
I think DEVNAME sounds better for a netdev and is fine for a node too?
What do you think?
thanks,
Kay
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-28 18:48 [PATCH] netdev - udevdb+dev.d changes Kay Sievers
2004-03-31 23:14 ` Greg KH
2004-03-31 23:40 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-04-01 0:22 ` Greg KH
2004-04-01 0:41 ` Kay Sievers
2004-04-01 1:02 ` Greg KH
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