From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:05:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] UDEV - Add 'udevlom' command line param to Message-Id: <20101103180500.GA7441@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20101103165505.GA3281@fedora-14-r710.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20101103165505.GA3281@fedora-14-r710.oslab.blr.amer.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Narendra_K@Dell.com Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com, Charles_Rose@Dell.com On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:25:25PM +0530, Narendra_K@Dell.com wrote: > Hello, > > This patch allows users to specify if they want the onboard network > interfaces to be renamed to lomN by implementing a command line param > 'udevlom'. Ick ick ick. Why not do this in some other configuration file? Don't rely on udev being started with a different option, that is only ripe for abuse by everyone else who wants their pet-project to get into the udev environment. Please, surely there's a different way to do this. thanks, greg k-h