On 8/2/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
