From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hancockr@shaw.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lunz@falooley.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] keep track of network interface renaming
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:41:45 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070211.134145.48809485.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CF6C6A.1090506@shaw.ca>
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:20:10 -0600
> Unfortunately that's not very practical if, as in this case, the
> renaming is being done from an initramfs. Hiding this information as we
> do now is rather user-hostile.
Perhaps you have a point, I'll think about this some more.
But on the other hand note that kernel log messages can scroll away
and get lost, so you cannot really rely upon them for gathering
information which is necessary for properly detecting devices
in userspace or anything like that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-11 21:41 UTC|newest]
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2007-02-11 19:20 ` [PATCH] keep track of network interface renaming Robert Hancock
2007-02-11 21:41 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-02-11 11:28 2.6.20/2.6.20-rc7 : ethX renumbered Paul Rolland
2007-02-11 12:54 ` [PATCH] keep track of network interface renaming Olaf Hering
2007-02-11 13:29 ` Paul Rolland
2007-02-11 17:55 ` David Miller
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2007-02-11 18:28 ` David Miller
2007-02-11 22:35 ` Tilman Schmidt
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