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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0'
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:18:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031121051838.GA13127@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34qwy5mm7.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de) said: 
> > There are some situations where you have to jump through hoops
> > because it can't atomically swap two device names (i.e.,
> > eth0 <-> eth1, but the code itself seems to work ok in use here...
> 
> Adding such swapping should not be very hard if someone is motivated.
> Interestingly you're the first to complain about it missing...

When I looked at it, I assumed it was a limitation of the
kernel interface, in that it only operated on one device at
a time... or are you talking about just doing the switch in
nameif itself with a temporary device name?

Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-21  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Ua09.2Wt.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <Uajn.3lb.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-21  5:14   ` [PATCH] All my Pcmcia cards are 'eth0' Andi Kleen
2003-11-21  5:18     ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2003-11-21 19:11 Jean Tourrilhes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-21  3:13 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21  3:28 ` Bill Nottingham
2003-11-21  3:40   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-21 17:22     ` Jean Tourrilhes

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