On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:26:54 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Masakazu Mokuno wrote:
> > The gelic driver uses two net interfaces, one for ethernet and the
> > other for wireless. They share same MAC address and use 'eth' prefix
> > for the name.
> > As udev uses the MAC address to check uniqueness, this is
> > somewhat problematic. So change the prefix of the network interface
> > name for the wireless so that udev can have an easy way to distinguish
> > interfaces.
>
> Now my PS3 has `eth0' and `wlan0_rename'.
> I assume we still need changes to udev?
The patch just gives a clue to write nicer rule in udev.
My previous fix for this issue was to add an exception to udev like:
--- 75-persistent-net-generator.rules.orig 2008-03-04 14:17:07.000000000 +0900
+++ 75-persistent-net-generator.rules 2008-03-04 14:03:23.000000000 +0900
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
# ignore Xen virtual interfaces
SUBSYSTEMS=="xen", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
+# ignore PS3 gelic interfaces; they share a mac address
+DRIVERS=="ps3_gelic_driver", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
+
# read MAC address
ENV{MATCHADDR}="$attr{address}"
But Kay Sievers <kay.seivers@xxxxxxxx> told that he could add a nicer
rule if the wireless interface has the distinct prefix like 'wlan'. So
I made this patch.
--
Masakazu MOKUNO
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