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authorkay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2004-03-24 23:19:39 -0800
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-04-26 21:35:12 -0700
commitf61d732a02c8a5e11c39651a70e3e3fd00529495 (patch)
treec0d5c08372c1efcb4e668075c796e5b6aa5edb65 /udev_lib.h
parent3e33961b4557f9b709c901b4aa77dfe0220222bd (diff)
[PATCH] hmm, handle net devices with udev?
Hmm, Arndt Bergmann sent a patch like this one a few weeks ago and I want to bring the question back, if we want to handle net device naming with udev. With this patch it is actually possible to specify something like this in udev.rules: KERNEL="dummy*", SYSFS{address}="00:00:00:00:00:00", SYSFS{features}="0x0", NAME="blind%n" KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:0d:60:77:30:91", NAME="private" and you will get: [root@pim udev.kay]# cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed lo: 1500 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 1500 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 private: 278393 1114 0 0 0 0 0 0 153204 1468 0 0 0 0 0 0 sit0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 blind0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The udevinfo program is also working: [root@pim udev.kay]# ./udevinfo -a -p /sys/class/net/private looking at class device '/sys/class/net/private': SYSFS{addr_len}="6" SYSFS{address}="00:0d:60:77:30:91" SYSFS{broadcast}="ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff" SYSFS{features}="0x3a9" SYSFS{flags}="0x1003" SYSFS{ifindex}="2" SYSFS{iflink}="2" SYSFS{mtu}="1500" SYSFS{tx_queue_len}="1000" SYSFS{type}="1" follow the class device's "device" looking at the device chain at '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0': BUS="pci" ID="0000:02:01.0" SYSFS{class}="0x020000" SYSFS{detach_state}="0" SYSFS{device}="0x101e" SYSFS{irq}="11" SYSFS{subsystem_device}="0x0549" SYSFS{subsystem_vendor}="0x1014" SYSFS{vendor}="0x8086" The matching device will be renamed to the given name. The device name will not be put into the udev database, cause the kernel renames the device and the sysfs name disappears. I like it, cause it plugs in nicely. We have all the naming features and sysfs queries and walks inside of udev. The sysfs timing races are already solved and the management tools are working for net devices too. nameif can only match the MAC address now. udev can match any sysfs value of the device tree the net device is connected to. But right, net devices do not have device nodes :)
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diff --git a/udev_lib.h b/udev_lib.h
index 5db6b5261a..90a42ffe96 100644
--- a/udev_lib.h
+++ b/udev_lib.h
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ extern char *get_devpath(void);
extern char *get_devnode(void);
extern char *get_seqnum(void);
extern char *get_subsystem(char *subsystem);
+extern char get_device_type(const char *path, const char *subsystem);
extern int file_map(const char *filename, char **buf, size_t *bufsize);
extern void file_unmap(char *buf, size_t bufsize);
extern size_t buf_get_line(char *buf, size_t buflen, size_t cur);