From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Richter Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:43:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: use "firewire%d" instead of "eth%d" Message-Id: <4A1A7659.6060201@s5r6.in-berlin.de> List-Id: References: <200905251033.09272.zzam@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200905251033.09272.zzam@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthias Schwarzott Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Christian Kujau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > On Sonntag, 24. Mai 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Besides, if we can we should avoid fw%d because this will clash with >> udev rules which match KERNEL="fw*", as in >> udev/rules/redhat/40-redhat.rules. > > I suggest a subsystem match here, or generally some > SUBSYSTEM!="net", GOTO="end_of_file" > around almost all rule files that should not match on network interfaces, as > users can rename them to almost all crazy names. > > @Kay: Perhaps it could simplify some rulesets to have a special jump target or > option to skip entiere rules files. Right... Luckily, 75-persistent-net-generator.rules already has a big SUBSYSTEM!="net", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end" around everything. Also, "fw*" devices related rules which I'll submit RSN will have SUBSYSTEM="firewire" prefixes. -- Stefan Richter -===-=--= -=-= =--http://arcgraph.de/sr/