Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:39:58 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering |
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On Aug 3 2007 00:00, Kay Sievers wrote: >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
I think it is helpful to integrate the suse patch rather than to patch udev alone. This way, renames that do not involve udev also show up.
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