* Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12339] New: ne2000 doesn't set udev DRIVER attribute
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@ 2009-01-05 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2009-01-05 22:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev; +Cc: bugme-daemon, Christopher Head, Daniel Drake, Alan Cox
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:44:31 -0800 (PST)
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12339
>
> Summary: ne2000 doesn't set udev DRIVER attribute
> Product: Networking
> Version: 2.5
> KernelVersion: 2.6.28
> Platform: All
> OS/Version: Linux
> Tree: Mainline
> Status: NEW
> Severity: normal
> Priority: P1
> Component: Other
> AssignedTo: acme@ghostprotocols.net
> ReportedBy: chead@telus.net
>
>
> The ne2000 driver does not set the DRIVER attribute in udev. This causes
> persistent network device naming to ignore the device, thinking it to be a
> virtual device of some sort that ought not to be persistently named.
>
> Relevant output:
> # udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/net/eth0
>
> Udevinfo starts with the device specified by the devpath and then
> walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device
> found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format.
> A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device
> and the attributes from one single parent device.
>
> looking at device '/devices/virtual/net/eth0':
> KERNEL=="eth0"
> SUBSYSTEM=="net"
> DRIVER==""
> ATTR{addr_len}=="6"
> ATTR{iflink}=="2"
> ATTR{ifindex}=="2"
> ATTR{features}=="0x0"
> ATTR{type}=="1"
> ATTR{link_mode}=="0"
> ATTR{address}=="00:80:c8:2c:71:a2"
> ATTR{broadcast}=="ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"
> ATTR{carrier}=="1"
> ATTR{dormant}=="0"
> ATTR{operstate}=="unknown"
> ATTR{mtu}=="1500"
> ATTR{flags}=="0x1003"
> ATTR{tx_queue_len}=="1000"
>
> looking at parent device '/devices/virtual/net':
> KERNELS=="net"
> SUBSYSTEMS==""
> DRIVERS==""
>
> looking at parent device '/devices/virtual':
> KERNELS=="virtual"
> SUBSYSTEMS==""
> DRIVERS==""
>
>
> Downstream <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252449>, Daniel Drake
> suggests that maybe "this is because the driver does not call
> SET_NETDEV_DEV()".
>
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