On 4/24/06, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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?
>From what I read its likely to be because there may already be a device named "eth1" due to default naming when you are trying to rename a device (say eth0) to eth1. this is all because Debian now has async init, right? BTW, since the letters in udev are all hex, it shouldn't matter whether they are upper or lower case, IMO Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
