From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Schwarzott Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:04:29 +0000 Subject: Re: Make rule generator switchable Message-Id: <200707272204.29683.zzam@gentoo.org> List-Id: References: <200707271904.51531.zzam@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200707271904.51531.zzam@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Freitag, 27. Juli 2007, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 27, Kay Sievers wrote: > > Just don't install the rules then? Why would you want to run the > > scripts at all, if you don't need them? > > Debian uses a symlink because there are some situations where it does > not work (the most common one still unsolved is Sun systems with > multiple ethernet interfaces having the same MAC address). Gentoo does not uses symlinks, but we up to now miss some setup to selectively disable rules. Other way I thought of was: Adding ENV{DISABLE_PERSISTENT_NET}!="?*" to the rule, and then getting that var into udev. Perhaps injecting it via udevcontrol directly after starting udevd. Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott (zzam) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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