On 08.07.2010 15:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Stefan Assmann wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c b/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c
index 5e2b2a8..2fb665b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/igbvf/netdev.c
@@ -2787,7 +2787,7 @@ static int
-Original Message-
From: Stefan Assmann [mailto:sassm...@redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 2:32 AM
To: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: netdev; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Duyck, Alexander H; Rose,
Gregory V; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Andy Gospodarek
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igbvf: avoid name clash
On 01.07.2010 19:12, Casey Leedom wrote:
| From: Stefan Assmann sassm...@redhat.com
| Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:37 pm
|
| You're correct, the problem shouldn't occur with cxgb4vf and therefore
| this change shouldn't be necessary. However we might consider a
| consistent naming
On 30.06.2010 18:59, Casey Leedom wrote:
| From: Stefan Assmann sassm...@redhat.com
| Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 01:53 am
|
| This is not a udev bug since udev doesn't create persistent rules for
| VFs as their MAC address changes every reboot.
|
| To avoid this problem we could
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:53 +0200, Stefan Assmann wrote:
From: Stefan Assmann sassm...@redhat.com
It looks like the VFs get initialized before all the PFs are. Therefore
the udev mapping MAC - ethX (for PFs) gets screwed because the VFs
may grab the ethX interface names (reserved by udev)
| From: Stefan Assmann sassm...@redhat.com
| Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 01:53 am
|
| This is not a udev bug since udev doesn't create persistent rules for
| VFs as their MAC address changes every reboot.
|
| To avoid this problem we could change the kernel name for the VFs and
| thus avoid
