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From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net device renaming 2-step, IFNAMSIZ limit
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:54:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101207035409.GA30400@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101129032908.GA29904@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:45:04AM -0200, Piter PUNK wrote:
> As we talk on #udev, there is a patch that uses hash32 function inside 
> libudev to create
> the intermediate name. We use the "oldname-newname" to create the hash. 
> With that,
> exceeding IFNAMSIZ isn't a problem:

Thanks piterpunk.

I built udev on a Fedora 14 box, with this patch, and it works.
However, I don't see udev doing the 2-step anymore, perhaps that was
just a figment of the loglevel.  Anyhow, it looks right, and doesn't
blow up.

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-07  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29  3:29 net device renaming 2-step, IFNAMSIZ limit Matt Domsch
2010-12-07  2:45 ` Piter PUNK
2010-12-07  3:54 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2011-01-29 15:23 ` Matt Domsch
2011-02-08 14:42 ` Kay Sievers
2011-02-08 18:07 ` Scott James Remnant
2011-02-09 16:21 ` Matt Domsch

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