From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Segaud Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:22:48 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and net device - question Message-Id: <87smfwoq07.fsf@minas-morgul.org> List-Id: References: <20040325154325.GB2979@irc.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040325154325.GB2979@irc.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Tomasz Torcz writes: > Hi, > > I'm very happy with ability to replace not reliable nameif with udev. > After few greps over udev-023 source I'm little confused. > Do I have to identify my network cards with PCI ID? I would strongly > prefer MAC address instead. It's available in sysfs: > > cat /sys/class/net/ep0/address > 00:07:e9:15:0e:cb > > Is it possible with current udev? yep, use SYSFS{address}="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" as the match part of the rule and it will work, that's it :) by the way, thanks to all udev developers and the guy that never sleeps, who made this tiny little binary; I use it in initrd to boot my dm-crypt'ed root, to manage all /dev at real boot and after, and to set my 3 ethernet cards to "external", "private" and "dmz" names. Seems like 2.6 changed many things in Linux world, all that with stability ;) > > (Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed) -- Mathieu Segaud "Just wait. My crystal ball is infallible." - Linus Torvalds ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel