On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:33, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sonntag, 24. Mai 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Christian Kujau wrote at LKML: >> > If the patch will be accepted at all and it's not too late to ask: I'd >> > vote for fw%d as well, "firefire" just looks too long, for me at least. >> >> I think I'll leave the driver as it is. >> As I just noticed, we would lose interface renaming by udev. >> From udev/extras/rule_generator/75-persistent-net-generator.rules: >> >> # device name whitelist >> KERNEL!="eth*|ath*|wlan*[0-9]|msh*|ra*|sta*|ctc*|lcs*|hsi*", >> GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end" >> >> Besides, if we can we should avoid fw%d because this will clash with >> udev rules which match KERNEL=="fw*", as in >> udev/rules/redhat/40-redhat.rules. > > I suggest a subsystem match here, or generally some > SUBSYSTEM!="net", GOTO="end_of_file" > around almost all rule files that should not match on network interfaces, as > users can rename them to almost all crazy names. > > @Kay: Perhaps it could simplify some rulesets to have a special jump target or > option to skip entiere rules files. Not sure, if Fedora is using this rule file, there seems a lot of old stuff in it. But the rule should be ignored for device without a device node, when SYMLINK is given in the rule. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
