linux-kernel - Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering]

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Message-ID: <20070802143712.GA19346@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:37:12 +0200
From:	Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@...reenet.org>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Herbert Rosmanith <kernel@...dsau.enemy.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 05:36:45PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> not become required (it is slowly becoming - for example, some
> packages on Debian (like xen for example) now explicitly depends
> on udev - but so far  I managed to satisfy this dependency by
> other means).

udev is not problem - problem si crazy default configuration
of udev used by some distros. If you use udev with simple sane
configuration, then it just creates device nodes based on kernel
names.

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