when does udev rename network interface ?

[Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>]

Hi,

In our myri10ge ethernet driver, we print the interface name with
netdev->name at the end of the myri10ge_probe routine. When the user
wrote a rule to rename the interface, it looks like udev does the
renaming after the end of the probe routine, which means we are printing
the original netdev->name instead of the final one that udev sets.

I thought that udev would be called during register_netdev (which we
call in the probe routine). But, it seems it is actually called later.
Is there any way to wait until udev is actually called? or to force it
to rename before the end of the probe routine so that we can end the
driver initialization by printing the final name of the interface?

Thank you
Brice Goglin


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