On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:59:59AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:23:26AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > The handling of ethernet devices seems to be unusual in that there are > > entries for them in /sys but not, as far as I can tell, in /dev (by > > default, anyway). > > That's the Unix way, network devices never show up in /dev. This has > nothing to do with udev. >
My point was that, since udev usually manipulates /dev, and network devices don't show up in /dev, udev manipulations might not help with problems involving the names of network devices. Though there is an example that does set a name in /dev (I presume) at http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-iface -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
