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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cleanup netif handling and netif-dev.d/ events
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:44:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041018184423.GC7487@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041018181713.GA7487@vrfy.org>

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:28:06AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:17:13PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Here we supress the dev.d/ execution if we didn't change a network
> > interface's name with a rule. This should solve the issue of two
> > running dhclients for the same interface, cause the
> > /etc/dev.d/net/hotplug.dev script that fakes the hotplug event runs
> > with every udevstart for every interface and fakes a second identical
> > hotplug event on bootup.
> 
> Huh?  /etc/dev.d/net/hotplug.dev should contain the following three
> lines at the beginning to prevent this:
> 	# See if we really did rename this device.
> 	if [ "$INTERFACE" = "$DEVNAME" ]; then
> 		exit 0
> 	fi

I don't think that $INTERFACE is available to the dev.d/ scripts.
I will look into the hotplug "rename" event, if the uevent patches
reached the mainline kernel :)

> right?  What distro doesn't do this?
> 
> Do we want to hardcode this logic inside udev itself now?

No, if we don't create a node, or don't rename a netif, we just don't
call dev.d/ now.

Kay


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18 18:17 cleanup netif handling and netif-dev.d/ events Kay Sievers
2004-10-18 18:28 ` Greg KH
2004-10-18 18:44 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-10-18 19:51 ` Greg KH

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