On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 12:21:20AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> Keep track about which network interface names were renamed after the
> network device driver printed its banner. Example insanity:
>
> honeydew:~ # dmesg| grep -Ew '(eth[0-9]|rename|renamed)'
> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> e1000: eth2: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> 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
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'ethxx3' to 'eth0'
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth0' to 'eth3'
> eth0 renamed to eth3
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth1' to 'eth2'
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth1' to 'ethxx1'
> eth1 renamed to ethxx1
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'ethxx1' to 'eth2'
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'eth2' to 'eth1'
> eth2 renamed to eth1
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'ethxx3' to 'eth0'
> ethxx3 renamed to eth0
> dev_change_name: about to rename 'ethxx1' to 'eth2'
> ethxx1 renamed to eth2
> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Fix Xen network support not to do such stupid stuff...
Jeff
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