Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:00:41 +0200 | From | "Kay Sievers" <> | Subject | Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering |
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On 8/2/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote: > I know I have seen my kernel outputting "A renamed to B". Since you two > however wanted that information in the first place, I grepped a bit > around, and actually found, (drumroll), that the SUSE kernel has had a > proper patch for [I can't remember how long] quite some time. (At least > one distro which does the right thing.) I copied it below.
> e1000: eth3: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection > dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth3' to 'eth0' > dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth3' to 'ethxx3' > eth3 renamed to ethxx3
I just made udev when it successfully renamed an interface to write that to the kernel log, so dmesg will show: <6>udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
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