From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750758AbXBKRzy (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:55:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750759AbXBKRzy (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:55:54 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40503 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbXBKRzy (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:55:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:55:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20070211.095552.71093127.davem@davemloft.net> To: olaf@aepfle.de Cc: rol@witbe.net, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rol@as2917.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] keep track of network interface renaming From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070211125423.GA30668@aepfle.de> References: <011001c74dcf$c60c1c80$2101a8c0@donald> <20070211125423.GA30668@aepfle.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Olaf Hering Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:54:23 +0100 > Keep track about which network interface names were renamed after the > network device driver printed its banner. > > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering This is kernel log clutter. You can ask the kernel for the list of interfaces, and use even ethtool to ask what driver each interface is associated with. The patch wasn't applied because it really is not necessary.