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From: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to correct udev rules that generate errors with udev 100
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:00:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158217230.21526.15.camel@quest.netsplit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a44ae5cd0609131628kdf696d3kfd7ae4b0979b4caa@mail.gmail.com>


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On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 20:41 -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote:

> Miles Lane wrote:
> > Any idea why udev would be changing the netdevice names?
> 
> Because you have a rule that names the NIC by either MAC address or
> physical (bus) location, would be my guess.  ;-)  It looks like udevd
> is trying to swap names, so your kernel probably detected the devices
> in the opposite order from what your rules say they should be named.
> 
> (You may not even know about this rule; it may have been generated by
> another rule-generating rule that Ubuntu put in place.)
> 
In Ubuntu, the rule parses the /etc/iftab file for this information --
so check that file.

You'll almost certainly find that it's doing the right thing for you.

Scott
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-13 23:28 How to correct udev rules that generate errors with udev 100 Miles Lane
2006-09-13 23:29 ` Kay Sievers
2006-09-14  0:21 ` Miles Lane
2006-09-14  0:41 ` Bryan Kadzban
2006-09-14  1:08 ` Miles Lane
2006-09-14  3:06 ` Bryan Kadzban
2006-09-14  7:00 ` Scott James Remnant [this message]

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