From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:57:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev+ifrename integration Message-Id: <1173441469.6926.60.camel@quest.netsplit.com> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2047597119==" List-Id: References: <20070307194435.GA22264@bougret.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20070307194435.GA22264@bougret.hpl.hp.com> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --===============2047597119== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-IbvkLGrAx7273R8CYS9/" --=-IbvkLGrAx7273R8CYS9/ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:15 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:24:16AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:11 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > >=20 > > > Because you would loose the following features of ifrename : > > > o wildcard renaming > > > o takeover > > > There is also another feature that I have not yet implemented > > > in ifrename that you could not implement with that, which is alternat= e > > > renaming. And I have other more nebulous ideas. > > >=20 > > These things are both implemented in the Ubuntu patch for udev. > >=20 > Yes, but your patch does not seem to be in the upstream > udev. Why is that ? >=20 It's been submitted upstream, but not accepted; Kay tends towards conservatism until things are proved to be needed. > And does you patch support all features of ifrename, or just a > select few ? >=20 Select few. We explicitly do not want to support all of the features of ifrename, because it caused us nothing but headaches in the past. All we want is for interface names to be consistent across reboots, and for there to be no race conditions between the interface being added and renamed; the patch we use is sufficient to do that. When we used to call-out ifrename from hotplug, we had incredible numbers of problems due to ifrename mis-features and race conditions inherent with not controlling the interface renaming ourselves. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant Ubuntu Development Manager scott@ubuntu.com --=-IbvkLGrAx7273R8CYS9/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF8Uu9SnQiFMl4yK4RAl+GAJkBRHqbicZBVHAwY61zYJYs1oZEJQCfQof5 B6/mQMOQD4zRdyFkcc7V8Gs= =ti8H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IbvkLGrAx7273R8CYS9/-- --===============2047597119== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV --===============2047597119== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel --===============2047597119==--