Problems with udev > 106 and multiple network cards

[Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>]

Hello,

I have some problems with udev 107 and 108 with my network cards.

This box has 3 network cards ( 2 at the moment ) a buildin sis900 , and 
2 RealTek cards one USB and one pcmcia.

I use the pcmcia RealTek one as default , sis900 is not used while 
borken and the usb one is used just sometimes for my LAN.

I use on this box minimal initramfs ( FS drivers etc to boot ) but I get 
the same problem without initramfs too.

 After upgrading from udev 106 to 107 ( later to 108 ) and rebooting the 
box my network stoped working.

I figured the 'cards names' looks weird , random they are called now 
ethX_rename  (
http://frugalware.org/~crazy/other/udev/sys_class_net.txt | 
http://frugalware.org/~crazy/other/udev/ifconfig-a.txt )
as well I get for each card an long timeout  ( 5 to 15 seconds for each 
wrong named card ) on boot because the 70-persistent-net.rules.

Deleting the rules before udev starts make the timout be human again  ( 
like  2 - 3 seconds ) but the rules are still wrong because I get  as 
NAME  ethX_rename.

The only way to make my network work was to blacklist the drivers from 
sis and the USB one, and edit the *-net rules manually but as soon I add 
any other card ,
or remove the drivers from the blacklist I have the same problem.

I've also tested udev 107 and 108 with a lot kernels 2.6.20.X , 
2.6.21-rc{5,6}.git{X} and latest -mm kernel and I have the same problem 
on all.

I noticed one more strange thing with the db , while in <= 106 the db 
was like foo\@bar -> something , >106 looks here like %2fbar%2fbaz -> 
something
( http://frugalware.org/~crazy/other/udev/udev_db.txt )

Going back to udev 106 make everything working again. ( with all kernels 
with or without initramfs ).

Any idea what could cause this problems ?


Regards,

Gabriel C



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