From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:44:21 +0000 Subject: Re: Manage network links with hotplug? Message-Id: <20040322174421.GA15589@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:24:24PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 22, Greg KH wrote: > > > > The major problem is that there is no good way to assign an interface > > > name to a specific hardware device (but this happens also without > > > hotplug...). > > What is wrong with using nameif for this? > In my experience it just does not work: not all tools recognize the > modified names. In my experience, and in Red Hat's and SuSE's experience, nameif works just fine to bind network adapters to specific MAC address of devices. As I personally know loads of people using it, and I know of some developers working on adding some udev-like functions to nameif to handle pci device names and stuff, I'm pretty sure this is the proper tool. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ 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