From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:17:34 +0000 Subject: Re: Make rule generator switchable Message-Id: <1185560254.23818.5.camel@lov.localdomain> List-Id: References: <200707271904.51531.zzam@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200707271904.51531.zzam@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 14:05 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org) said: > > How should todays boxes work without persistent network names? They > > are as needed as LABEL, UUID, or /dev/disk/ for block devices. The old > > way of having luck to get the same kernel device names across reboots, > > just doesn't work today. > > The problem with the persistent net rule generator is when it's run - it > is never run (at least under Fedora and related distributions) at a time > when it's actually able to *write* rules. Not a problem, it writes temporary rules to /dev/.udev, you are expected to copy over, if you system does not allow to write to /etc at that time. Kay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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