From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 21:42:58 +0000 Subject: Re: netdev + callout rules Message-Id: <20040401214258.GA30479@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <406BEB4B.5030805@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <406BEB4B.5030805@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:13:31PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure whether I'm following the netdev change for udev. AFAIK > udev has been changed to also handle net requests, so that the interface > name of a new interface can be changed nameif-like within udev. > Ok so far. > > But: What if one assumed that the add net device event will also setup > the interface itself via a call to 'ifconfig' or 'ifup'? > Do we have a callout rule in udev which is run _after_ the device node > (or, in this case, the nameif call) has been run? > Otherwise I don't really see much point in running udev for net events, > as our current ifup already uses nameif to rename the interface ... > But who knows, maybe there is something totally obvious which I'd > overlooked. You are correct. Here's a tiny script that I placed in /etc/dev.d/network/ that will call the hotplug scripts again with the new network name, if udev renames the device. I'll be adding it to the udev tree for it to install, as it is pretty useful. Even tested it on my laptop, so now I can run with renamed network devices all of the time :) thanks, greg k-h #!/bin/sh # # Script to ensure that any network device that udev renames # still gets the hotplug script run with the proper name. # # Released under the GPL v2 # # Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman # # See if we really did rename this device. if [ "$INTERFACE" = "$DEVNAME" ]; then exit 0 fi # ok, we have renamed this device, so let's set $INTERFACE to the new name # and call the network hotplug script to handle it properly... INTERFACE=$DEVNAME export INTERFACE if [ -f /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug ]; then /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug net fi ------------------------------------------------------- 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