From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:45:04 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and ISA network cards Message-Id: <4A49A660.5010301@ban-solms.de> List-Id: References: <4A44A631.5080900@ban-solms.de> In-Reply-To: <4A44A631.5080900@ban-solms.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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.