From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and net device - question
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:40:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040325224051.GA31084@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040325154325.GB2979@irc.pl>
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:22:48PM +0100, Mathieu Segaud wrote:
> Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm very happy with ability to replace not reliable nameif with udev.
> > After few greps over udev-023 source I'm little confused.
> > Do I have to identify my network cards with PCI ID? I would strongly
> > prefer MAC address instead. It's available in sysfs:
> >
> > cat /sys/class/net/ep0/address
> > 00:07:e9:15:0e:cb
> >
> > Is it possible with current udev?
>
> yep,
>
> use SYSFS{address}="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" as the match part of the rule
> and it will work, that's it :)
>
> by the way, thanks to all udev developers and the guy that never
> sleeps, who made this tiny little binary; I use it in initrd to boot
> my dm-crypt'ed root, to manage all /dev at real boot and after, and to
> set my 3 ethernet cards to "external", "private" and "dmz" names.
> Seems like 2.6 changed many things in Linux world, all that with
> stability ;)
Very very nice to hear from someone using it successfully. I'm happy
to hear, that udev finds its place on the boxes out there, now.
thanks for the feedback,
Kay
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-25 15:43 udev and net device - question Tomasz Torcz
2004-03-25 16:03 ` Kay Sievers
2004-03-25 16:10 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-03-25 16:22 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-03-25 16:23 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-25 22:40 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
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