summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/99-systemd.rules
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-05-10 04:08:53 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-05-10 04:08:53 +0200
commitafb757b1a8a416b3c692728330a266b3915eef41 (patch)
tree66c82e19ec7c8f3f92e9fe833c2a86b4efc79545 /99-systemd.rules
parentbab45044482dc012331c768c08d78a2d006485ad (diff)
device: allow easy identification of network interfaces without their full sysfs device path
Diffstat (limited to '99-systemd.rules')
-rw-r--r--99-systemd.rules15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/99-systemd.rules b/99-systemd.rules
index 9a9b27a022..c5c330f936 100644
--- a/99-systemd.rules
+++ b/99-systemd.rules
@@ -19,7 +19,20 @@ ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="systemd_end"
KERNEL=="tty[0-9]|tty1[0-2]", ENV{SYSTEMD_EXPOSE}="1"
KERNEL=="ttyS*", ENV{SYSTEMD_EXPOSE}="1"
+
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{SYSTEMD_EXPOSE}="1"
-SUBSYSTEM=="net", ENV{SYSTEMD_EXPOSE}="1"
+
+# We need a hardware independant way to identify network devices. We
+# use the /sys/subsystem path for this. Current vanilla kernels don't
+# actually support that hierarchy right now, however upcoming kernels
+# will. HAL and udev internally support /sys/subsystem already, hence
+# it should be safe to use this here, too. This is mostly just an
+# identification string for systemd, so whether the path actually is
+# accessible or not does not matter as long as it is unique and in the
+# filesystem namespace.
+#
+# http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob;f=libudev/libudev-enumerate.c;h=da831449dcaf5e936a14409e8e68ab12d30a98e2;hb=HEAD#l742
+
+SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL!="lo", ENV{SYSTEMD_EXPOSE}="1", ENV{SYSTEMD_ALIAS}="/sys/subsystem/net/devices/%k"
LABEL="systemd_end"