netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] UDEV - Add 'udevlom' command line param to start

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Message-ID: <20101103183247.GA28139@bongo.bofh.it>
Date:	Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:32:47 +0100
From:	md@...ux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Narendra_K@...l.com, linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@...l.com,
	Jordan_Hargrave@...l.com, Charles_Rose@...l.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] UDEV - Add 'udevlom' command line param to
	start_udev

On Nov 03, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> Why not do this in some other configuration file?  Don't rely on udev
> being started with a different option, that is only ripe for abuse by
> everyone else who wants their pet-project to get into the udev
> environment.
Agreed. What about instructing users/installers to add something like
this in /etc/udev/rules.d/00-something.rules?

KERNEL=="eth*", ENV{UDEVLOM}="1"

(Maybe with a more descriptive name than "UDEVLOM".)

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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