From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:40:51 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and net device - question Message-Id: <20040325224051.GA31084@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20040325154325.GB2979@irc.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040325154325.GB2979@irc.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:22:48PM +0100, Mathieu Segaud wrote: > Tomasz Torcz 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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