From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.44.186.158]:12023 "EHLO orion.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:09 +0000 Received: from orion.mvista.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by orion.mvista.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2A2X8x6013588; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:33:08 -0800 Received: (from jsun@localhost) by orion.mvista.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i2A2X8P8013586; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:33:08 -0800 Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:33:08 -0800 From: Jun Sun To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: jsun@mvista.com Subject: "eth%d" - net dev name in 2.6? Message-ID: <20040310023308.GU31326@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4519 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: jsun@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips With swarm running on 2.6 I just saw the net dev names are not set correctly. See below. eth%d: SiByte Ethernet at 0x10064000, address: 00-02-4C-FE-0C-B2 eth%d: enabling TCP rcv checksum It appears alloc_netdev() assigns this initial name and nobody later resets it to a more meaningful name. Any body has a clue here? I don't think it is driver's job though ... Thanks. Jun