From: Olaf <mailinglists@ban-solms.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and ISA network cards
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:45:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A49A660.5010301@ban-solms.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A44A631.5080900@ban-solms.de>
Kay Sievers wrote:
>> I would like to use ISA cards in combination with persistent net rules,
>> especially renaming ethX to something like internal / internet / etc. as
>> this is somewhat easier to remember ;-)
>>
>> Is this at all possible?
>
> It should work.
[... snip snip ...]
> This needs to be fixed in the kernel driver, it needs to set the
> parent device of the netdev before it is registered.
I was afraid you were going to say something like that ...
Ah well, I'll start staring at kernel driver code then.
regards
Olaf
PS: I'd appreciate any hints, pushes, shoves etc. to get me in proper
direction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 5:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-26 10:42 udev and ISA network cards Olaf
2009-06-26 11:15 ` Kay Sievers
2009-06-30 5:45 ` Olaf [this message]
2009-06-30 6:20 ` Hannes Reinecke
2009-07-02 6:33 ` Olaf
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