From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is it a backwards compatability catch-22?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:38:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <444D6F78.9080309@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060424165407.202a86f4@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
> The udev stuff runs after the device has already chosen it's default name.
> It has to, it's part of the hotplug infrastructure, and we don't want
> to depend on usermode to define the name. Just choose some other
> convention "eth_0" or something like that.
Is that because adding another NIC at a later time might cause it to
grab ethN out from under what I'm trying to do with udev?
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-24 23:47 is it a backwards compatability catch-22? Rick Jones
2006-04-24 23:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 0:38 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2006-04-25 16:09 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2006-04-25 18:34 ` Rick Jones
2006-04-25 19:10 ` Michal Schmidt
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