Re: [systemd-devel] Configuring ethernet link fails with No such device

2016-04-12 Thread David Miller
From: Bob Ham Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:58:12 +0100 > On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 15:46 -0700, Stefan Agner wrote: > >> Or in other words: Is this a Kernel or systemd issue? > > From what I recall, both; an issue with the FEC driver, and issues in > systemd/udevd's handling of

Re: [systemd-devel] Configuring ethernet link fails with No such device

2016-04-11 Thread David Miller
From: Stefan Agner Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:46:08 -0700 > What is the expectation/definition when link configuration should be > possible? Only after the network device got opened or before? Only after it is open. Drivers almost always have the entire chip in powerdown state

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'

2012-11-04 Thread David Miller
From: Doug Goldstein car...@cardoe.com Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:45:56 -0600 As Ben Greear pointed out this would allow shell scripts and other scripting languages to better detect vlans. Kay pointed out that this would allow better uevent filters in the future as well. So there are some

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'

2012-11-04 Thread David Miller
From: Doug Goldstein car...@cardoe.com Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 00:19:19 -0600 By this argument we shouldn't ever improve any API or add new syscalls since we'll have to have fallback code to handle the old interfaces when the new ones aren't available. It makes sense to add new APIs when

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'

2012-10-23 Thread David Miller
From: Doug Goldstein car...@cardoe.com Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:53:57 -0500 Sets the sysfs device_type to 'vlan' for udev. This makes it easier for applications that query network information via udev to identify vlans instead of using strrchr(). Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] vlan: set sysfs device_type to 'vlan'

2012-10-23 Thread David Miller
From: Kay Sievers k...@vrfy.org Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:34:11 +0200 On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Miller da...@davemloft.net wrote: From: Doug Goldstein car...@cardoe.com Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:53:57 -0500 Sets the sysfs device_type to 'vlan' for udev. This makes it easier