linux-kernel - Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering

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Message-ID: <3ae72650708021500v3de84e6vdf15d0a9e5baf661@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:00:41 +0200
From:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	"Michael Tokarev" <mjt@....msk.ru>,
	"Herbert Rosmanith" <kernel@...dsau.enemy.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering

On 8/2/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:
> I know I have seen my kernel outputting "A renamed to B". Since you two
> however wanted that information in the first place, I grepped a bit
> around, and actually found, (drumroll), that the SUSE kernel has had a
> proper patch for [I can't remember how long] quite some time. (At least
> one distro which does the right thing.) I copied it below.

> e1000: eth3: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth3' to 'eth0'
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth3' to 'ethxx3'
> eth3 renamed to ethxx3

I just made udev when it successfully renamed an interface to write
that to the kernel log, so dmesg will show:
  <6>udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

Kay
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