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Marco d'Itri wrote:
> I have no good idea about how to solve the second one since the
> system already has a running udev process which I cannot mess with.
>
> What do other distributions do?
In LFS (not that we're a distro, but whatever), after floundering around
for several months and almost ten udev versions, we finally settled on
using udevadm test. (At least for the moment.) Works with kernels >=
2.6.8 if you don't care about the comments, or >= 2.6.18 if you do want
the comments (at least according to the testing we did).
It should work until udevadm test stops running programs specified in
IMPORT{program} keys. ;-)
See e.g. the first part of
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter07/network.html
- -- that gets run from inside a chroot, after the new udev is installed.
(I'll be the first to admit that it's an abuse of udevadm -- but it
works for now, and unless we can expand IFNAMSIZ and then add the
ability to create by-mac or by-path or whatever symlinks to NICs -- then
you wouldn't need to generate anything -- it's the easiest we could come
up with. Automatic "symlinks" (multiple names for the same interface)
would work great, but they'd have to be long enough to express the MAC
address or physical device path in the name, and IFNAMSIZ isn't nearly
long enough.)
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