On May 25, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > We can not rename network devices in the kernel namespace (ethX) > reliably. It's impossible to get right to rename in a conflicting > namespace while kernel modules are loaded. Can you tell me more about this? Because it worked well enough for the last last 5 years. > The whole thing does not scale with a lot of interfaces or on boxes > with many changes. The rules file just gets full of garbage over time. True, but these are corner cases. > Only one thing seems sure for now, that udev must stop renaming things > in the kernel namespace. The details for the rest we will need to find > out. :) Maybe you can get away with removing features, but I need to support the ones used by my users so I am strongly opposed to removing this code until other software will support all current use cases. As you showed, distributions which do not feel like supporting it can just disable it. -- ciao, Marco -- 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
